Oh, what the hell

If I’m going to blog,  might as well…blog. Truth is, I’m trying to figure out how blogging fits into my writing life and my life, period.   I write a great many things in different formats and venues, some of which have my name on them, some of which don’t.   I wonder about blogging, every day [...]

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You know…

“regularly” is a relative word. Right? Things that happen but once a year still happen regularly. Anyway, if you haven’t already, catch up with every word the Holy Father said in the United Kingdom at the visit’s page at Vatican.va Christopher Blosser has great summarizing links here. Two of my favorite commentaries: Roger Scruton: The [...]

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On the other hand

After my paen to the physicality of the book, I’ll let you know that for the past, oh, six years or so, I’ve been on a mission to purge actual, physical books from my life. Michael and I both brought a lot of books into our marriage.  Then, since he was in publishing, we accumulated [...]

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More on the Debate

A bit more: A blog post from Larry Staunton, the head of the Fixed Point Foundation, on the debate.  He has a very honest assessment of the evening. Here’s Claire Berlinski reflecting on  her father’s post-mortem on the evening. (Thanks to Marianne B. for both of those links) Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is debating Hitchens on [...]

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Print, E-books, blah, blah, blah

So let’s check in on the issue. Since I last wrote about this (who knows when), one of my older sons has acquired a Sony E-Reader of some sort which he LOVES.   He has downloaded lots of public domain stuff onto it as well as more current books, and he carts it around with him [...]

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Mice in Bags

Frozen Dinners. (for snakes)

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Pity The Neanderthals!

A quick post. (I think next week I will be moving back into more regular blogging. I just finshed another stage of a large project which has occupied me mentally and spiritually for quite some time – as in over a year.  So I’m ready for some shorter-term brain exercise.) As you can tell from [...]

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Watching Christopher Hitchens Sign Books

“What is the worst teaching of Jesus? Vicarious suffering for redemption. Relieving people of responsibility. In this, the moral rot of Christianity is exposed at its core. Life with no thought of tomorrow? Forget it all and follow me? Leave behind spouse and children, knowing that it is all conditioned on the end of the [...]

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