How long has it been since I did one of these? I guess I’ve not done many. There was interviewing myself as a writer, and (the one that made em laugh the most) fortune-telling via iPod. Both are worth checking out, but especially the iPod one. Angela, aka Farmer Jane, from The High Desert Chronicles Continue reading →
Well, I didn’t even try to hook into any of the reading “challenges” floating around the web, despite referencing two of them on my own blog. In the final analysis, I read 26 novels. The count was encouraging, considering how few of those were in the last third of the year. In my opening description Continue reading →
From Barbara Leonie Picard’s The Faun and the Woodcutter’s Daughter. Riding through his lands the morning of midsummer’s day, young Count Alaric came upon a dazed young lady wandering in the early-morning dew. He was more distressed than she at her lack of memory, and took her home. While he could not discover who she Continue reading →
Borrowing the idea from Georgiana and sharing my reading shelf today. I read in a way that would have made me crazy ten years ago. And, you can see for yourself, I am woefully short on fiction. As in, none. I think this explains why my mind more naturally gravitates to blogging than to fiction-writing Continue reading →
You gotta love that title. It’s another chapter title from The Angel and the Ants (here if you want to browse the other excerpts). Reading this chapter I felt again that twinge I get when wishing my life now showed the fruits of a more structured childhood (not that I’d want to have lived that Continue reading →
Monday I got a call from a woman I had offered to help. She needed assistance carrying some heavy water jugs before they froze, and I had told her to call when she wanted me to come out. The freeze the night before prompted her call, so I asked when she wanted me to come Continue reading →
More from Kreeft’s The Angel and the Ants. …But it is a stronger answer to say that faith is not a hypothesis at all. It is more like a crutch. People used to accuse religion of being a crutch. The answer is: Yes. That’s exactly what it is. What’s more necessary for a cripple than Continue reading →
The alternative to boredom, the cure for boredom and the cure for all the ills of the modern world that are rooted in boredom– is sanctity.