Thursday, September 25, 2025

Good Parenting Advice From O'Connor (and Lewis)

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  I  came across an interesting article by Theresa Civantos Barber over on Aleteia, "Flannery O’Connor’s perfect parenting advice....
Thursday, September 18, 2025

Rochester Chesterton Society Season Begins

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  Tonight the Rochester Chesterton Society will meet to begin its 2025/26 season. The Society meets from September to May on the second Thur...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

Final Notes on LOTR Books vs Movies

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  I finished reading The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien. What a great pleasure to read - or in my case, reread. In a previous post I...
Thursday, September 04, 2025

The Lord of the Rings Book vs. Movies

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 I am currently rereading The Lord of the Rings . I'm up to the third volume: The Return of the King. This is my third rereading of the ...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Maybe Somebody Should Have Put Baby In A Corner

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A Grace by G. K. Chesterton You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the play and the opera, And grace before the conce...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

On Vacation, So Quotations!

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I'm on vacation this week, with wife and dog at a cottage as a base from which to venture forth to see the sights. So just a few quotati...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

What Tolkien Can Teach Us About the Creative Life

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  "Beyond his much-beloved books,  The Hobbit,   The Lord of the Rings,  and  The Silmarillion,  J. R. R. Tolkien was a poet, philologi...
Friday, August 08, 2025

Saint Tolkien

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  August 8, 2025 Perhaps I may say also now (as I have meant to do for some time) that though I only briefly thanked Austin [one of the corr...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

In the News (Two Clerihews)

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  Two people in the news lately inspired clerihews, Ozzy Osbourne and Syndey Sweeney.. Ozzy Osbourne was by water borne to the Alamo where h...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Carter vs Scranton Joe (Clerihew)

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  Good Jimmy Carter, when it comes to presidents was one of the smarter. Historians rank his presidency pretty low, but it’s looking better ...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

More Housekeeping

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Four weeks ago I looked at the Blogs to which this blog linked. I found that many of them are no longer active. Today I checked the other li...
Thursday, July 10, 2025

Peter Maurin, G. K. Chesterton, and Hilaire Belloc

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Peter Maurin was a social activist and theologian, and a co-founder (with Dorothy Day) of the Catholic Worker movement. In his thinking he w...
Thursday, July 03, 2025

Joining Some Inklings Fan Groups

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I was continuing my look at some of the blogs and pages to which this blog is linked when I came across ones about C. S. Lewis and the Inkli...
Friday, June 27, 2025

Did He, Or Didn't He?

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  A page on Facebook posted the following meme: Being a trusting sort, I reposted it. Yikes. I got jumped on by multiple people claiming he ...
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Thursday, June 19, 2025

Blogging Buddies Go Bye-Bye

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  Back when I started contributing to this blog there was a team that posted multiple times a week. There were also a number of other blogs ...
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