Excited about the movie? The Holy Father and the Curt Jester are waaaay ahead of you.
Author: Peony Moss
National Book Festival!
Saturday, September 30 at the National Mall! I just saw the author list and I am so juiced! I’m even excited that Alexander McCall Smith is going to be there and I haven’t even read any of his books! I so hope that Dana Gioia’s going to be speaking and that I’ll get a chance… Continue reading National Book Festival!
Prayers for Regina Doman and her family
Tragic news: Regina Doman, the author of the magnificent Angel in the Waters (among many other books and articles) lost her four-year-old son in a car accident. I cannot imagine this agony. Prayers for Regina and her family.
let’s try this
picture behind the jump
the rocket’s red glare
Dear New York Times:
Just who the hell do you think you are? You can start yapping to me about your High Holy Professional Obligation to Blab Classified Information Just Because You Think It Will Sell Ad Space when you tell me… — why you think you’re a professional. If you’re a real professional, you are subject to a… Continue reading Dear New York Times:
boxes, boxes, boxes
Well, we did it! On May 31 we settled on our old house and our new house without bloodshed (though the people who bought our old house annoyed the settlement attorney so much, she held back the bottle of champagne she’d brought for them and only gave a bottle to us. Ha!) We’re almost unpacked;… Continue reading boxes, boxes, boxes
Memorial Day
O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife, who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life! America! America! God mend thine every flaw, confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law. O beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears! America!… Continue reading Memorial Day