I like participating in Ash Wednesday. I like walking around with a cross of ashes right smack dab in the middle of my forehead. I like the surreptitious glances of people who see the mark and then quickly look away, as if they caught me doing something inappropriate. I like wearing a [...]
Entries from February 2009
February 21, 2009
Pride and Prejudice – and a little more pride and prejudice on the side.
Alision Morris has been blogging about literary crushes. I can’t help but confess that a crush on Fitzwilliam Darcy practically carried me through high school. I don’t think it was just that particular character, but Jane Austen’s world captivated me. I read those novels countless times, seeing a world of virtue and [...]
February 12, 2009
I Heart P.D. James
P.D. James’ newest novel “The Private Patient” opens with the brilliant line:
“On November the twenty-first, the day of her forty-seventh birthday, and three weeks and two days before she was murdered, Rhoda Gradwyn went to Harley Street to keep a first appointment with her plastic surgeon, and there in a consulting room designed, so it [...]
February 10, 2009
Putting the funny back in the funnies
Let’s be honest, we’ve all read the daily comics and wondered how some of them are still around. I tend to think the general consensus among readers must be the same – mockworthy comics, comics that aren’t funny, comics that have the same image for three panels with a slightly different caption – no [...]
February 8, 2009
A reluctant blogger…
It all started quite innocently. I was expecting my first son in October of 2006 and joined a forum for other moms-to-be. Thus began my foray into the realm of BFP’s and LOL’s and DH’s and all the rest. Then came Facebook. Didn’t even fight it. After being sucked in to the point where I [...]
