The Anchoress
Sarah, I have been trying to respond to your email for several days and am having all the emails kicked back to me. Please advise. Read more
Sarah, I have been trying to respond to your email for several days and am having all the emails kicked back to me. Please advise. Read more
“Stompin’ at the Savoy” – Oscar Peterson on Piano, John Dankworth on Sax She’s the stuff. Read more
All the pro-life rhetoric in the world pales in comparison to seeing real people choose life, love, family and hope for the future. Nobody is missing from the family pictures. Everyone is there. Congrats and God Bless to David & Missy and their little strawberry-blonde daughter, and to their loving parents. Read more
For Pentecost – musings on the Trinity. COME, Holy Ghost, send down those beams, which sweetly flow in silent streams from Thy bright throne above O come, Thou Father of the poor; O come, Thou source of all our store, come, fill our hearts with love. Full text here Another version, slightly different and with wonderful harmonies: Read more
Don’t dress your black cat up in a pink tutu. Not even metaphorically. <br Read more
Sure, it’s just a goofy, clumsy mispeak that could happen to anyone. The sort of thing I ordinarily wouldn’t even write about because we all misspeak. It happens. But…I dunno…I’m not a spiteful sort but it seems like there just needs to be some balance, doesn’t it? If Bush had talked about visiting “57 states” we’d see it run on every channel, in an endless loop, for days on end. We’d be hearing “moron, moron, moron,” etc. I don’t think... Read more
It is, of course, as I have written elsewhere, the 150th anniversary of Our Lady’s appearances to Bernadette Soubirous at the grotto at Lourdes. Fr. James Martin, who writes beautifully about his experiences at Lourdes in his book, My Life With the Saints, has taken another trip there, to help out with the pilgrims and the masses and the baths, and here is what he says this time: The best part of the trip? That’s easy: being with the generous... Read more
I started doing this back in April, and for some reason people like this Q&A format and keep asking for more, and more, so…here’s more. Q: Anchoress, you wrote a frivolous piece about your soul and coffee; does that mean you’re feeling better? A: Praise God, yes, I am finally emerging from my exhausted fog and my numbers this morning were markedly better. Thanks for your kind notes and prayers (which always leave me touched and humbled.) If this is... Read more
Is it me, or does it seem like reporters aren’t even trying to make sense anymore? Tricia Nixon was risque in a sleeveless gown at her Rose Garden wedding. Oh please. In 1971, this might have been fashion forward, very lovely and “different” (neither hippy-granny dress, nor blowsy meringue) but it was hardly “risque,” especially for a wedding held in a garden instead of a church. Blah, blah, blah, Jenna is not having a White House wedding because blah, blah,... Read more
After four days in the house, sleeping nearly continuously thanks to my oxygen-deprived and bleary state, I desperately needed to get out of the house today, and also I needed to buy a card/gift for the Mother-in-Law (who deserves much more than either card or gift), so I ventured out and basically drove a circuit: card shop, gas station (back tire needed air), post-office, church (getting on to the Vespers hour, so why not) and then – feeling totally beat... Read more
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