Thursday, January 31, 2008

Not reading a book

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I have a confession to make. I stopped reading a book. I know many of us have done that - for a variety of reasons. (My best previous excuse...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Lesser-Known GKC

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Those looking for less familiar essays by Chesterton should note that he contributed to The Venture , a highbrow literary annual edited by W...
Saturday, January 19, 2008

Weekend thoughts........

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This is very cool......OT History An awesome interview of Fr. Schall, SJ and is continued here. I chose these two things with intention. Fr....
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Thursday, January 17, 2008

A Presidential Clerihew

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President James Polk would rarely crack a joke. But friends say he was quick with a limerick.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

CSL

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New C.S. Lewis blog , and it's a big hitter, sponsored by HarperOne.
Saturday, January 12, 2008

Some weekend thoughts.....

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Life is getting very, very political now. There is a temptation at times to fall into the trap of thinking that political thought is actual ...
Tuesday, January 08, 2008

GKC and BBC

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Sorry for my absence. I'm still not back up to full health, time-wise. In the meantime: On December 7, 1936 , the BBC, which had start...
Friday, January 04, 2008

Huckabee cites Chesterton!

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I know that Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has been the subject of debate in Catholic circles and blogs - with supporters a...
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Thursday, January 03, 2008

A clerihew

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Any foe of Andrew Jackson who dared to make attacks on Rachel, his wife, was risking his life.
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Sunday, December 30, 2007

Family Legacy?

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I made it into my thirties without knowing this........ Was at a family function and one of our geneologist buffs told me that we are relate...
Thursday, December 27, 2007

Merry Christmas - Book Things

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Sorry to have missed my regular Friday.....holiday Chaos. Local library just had overflow sale.........amazing deals Hardcover 50cents Softc...
Sunday, December 23, 2007

A Christmas Carol

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By G.K. Chesterton The Christ-child lay on Mary’s lap, His hair was like a light. (O weary, weary were the world, But here is all ar...
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Thursday, December 20, 2007

A surprising introduction

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I was trying to teach my high school students about writing descriptively. We had a few examples in our book, but then I remembered one of m...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Schall at Dappled

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Fr. Schall has written a GKCish piece for Dappled Things about Christmas. He opens with this lesser-known quote: “Christmas . . . is one of...
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Hobbit

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Good news from a Chesterton friend that was a generation behind: Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have reached agreement to make J.R.R. Tol...
Saturday, December 15, 2007

Great Giving

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If you still can not think of what to give that special someone who already has a book shelve of Chesterton here is a great idea, Portraits ...

Weekend Thoughts

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Ive been thinking lately about the English-ness of Chesterton and its place in his Catholicism. As Americans, inheritors of the English lang...
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

New Again

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This, by all accounts, has been a bad year for me. Filled with tragedy, disappointments and emotional upheaval, perhaps the worst year I hav...

Mencken on Wells and Chesterton

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By E.J. Scheske "A man with a head worth a pile of Chesterton heads as high as the Trafalgar monument." That's H.L. Mencken,...
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Monday, December 10, 2007

Simply delightful

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From Gerald Lynch's Leacock on Life : In his time, [Canadian humourist/economist Stephen Leacock] shared the press’s more plentiful page...
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