I dunno, Kiwi. Given the 100+F temperatures around here lately (38+ C) wintry sounds pretty good...
One can always put more clothes on, but when it's hot, it's just hot. But then, I'm a cold weather kind of guy -- which is odd given that I grew up in California and live in Texas.
With the Catholic News sites discussing the Vatican's move to reform the LCWR, I pulled this slim volume written back in 1986 off the shelf to re-read. It's a quick and amusing read: a satirical view of the breakdown and renewal of reli...
I'd never read any Henry James before, though I did see the Nicole Kidman movie adaptation of Portrait of a Lady some years ago because... well, because it was a costume drama with Nicole Kidman in it.
This was one of those novels I ...
If you, like me, have been reared on tales of the second World War as the just and virtuous struggle of the "greatest generation", Evelyn Waugh's arch novels (based loosely on his own war experiences) are an important and darkly enjoyabl...
This was the first time in some years that I've re-read this Austen novel, one of the quieter and shorter ones, but one which has ranked among my favorites. It was striking me, on this pass, that it rather shows the effects of having be...
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Actually, here it was today, and it is almost over...but I guess we have to make allowances for you dateline-challenged folks over there ;-)
It's kind of like you folks are living in the future down there.
How is the future these days?
Yeah, like John Prine said:
"We are living in the future
I'll tell you how I know
I read it in the paper
Fifteen years ago"
A perk of working for the Church is that my work day is automatically scheduled around Mass times.
The future here is at present very wintry and yuk!!! You don't want the weather we have in this upside-down part of the world right now!
I dunno, Kiwi. Given the 100+F temperatures around here lately (38+ C) wintry sounds pretty good...
One can always put more clothes on, but when it's hot, it's just hot. But then, I'm a cold weather kind of guy -- which is odd given that I grew up in California and live in Texas.
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