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I was typing away fast half an hour ago when the power went off... Thankfully, I believe Scrivener has an autosave features, but there will ...

Yesterday being the feast of St. Monica, and today being the feast of St. Augustine, it seemed like a good time to break out Confessions and...

There's a claim being made that Obama's Affordable Care Act will significantly reduce abortions, despite the concerns voiced by the ...

Austin friends: run, don't walk, to the Palace Theater in Georgetown to see their production of A Chorus Line. It's been given a ra...

From the "Talented People I Know" file: here's my college pal Brooke Evans singing Sondheim at Circle in the Square in New Yor...

Yeah, yeah, I should be writing. But procrastination is a powerful thing. There's been a lot of talk lately, due to Rep. Akin's ...

By some unimaginable injustice, we are the top link if you search Google for "Catholic philosophy blog" . If searching cost money...

1. The New York Times did a video shoot with 14 well-known actors, acting. It's interesting to watch these two-minute clips of a...

Not being up on the latest terms in philosophical discourse, I had not heard of the Courtier's Reply, which is apparently now the name f...

You'd have to try moderately hard to come up with a dumber and more insensitive comment than Rep. Todd Akin, the Republican Senate nomin...

It's been a while since we've written about homeschooling. There are several factors at play in this; the primary one is that we...

MrsDarwin is off on mothers' retreat for the night, and I have the kids and the novel to keep me busy. So here's some Squirrel Nut ...

John Allen had a post the other day in which he discussed the plight of "center-left" Catholicism in the US and advised it to seek...

Some new neighbors down the street were hosting Backyard Bible Camp, a truncated version of Vacation Bible School, and I sent the kids down ...

Jennifer Fitz (who writes at Riparians at the Gate ) is, it seems, one of the organizers of the Catholic Writers Conference which will be t...

I've been listening to music via Pandora a lot recently (while writing) and the result is that although I've been hearing more than ...

Here's my pretty new niece, Stella Kristen, born yesterday, on the Feast of the Transfiguration, at 9:44 pm, 6 lbs, 11 oz. I don'...

I tend to ignore virtually all boycott demands, so even if I hadn't been mad enough to be trying to write a novel in 31 days, I wouldn...

As we headed off on the first evening leg of last week's ten-hour trip to Wisconsin, we anticipated a ride eased by the dulcet tones of ...

We spent the weekend in the wilds of Wisconsin, where the internet access is sparse and the milk is fresh. The occasion was the  2012 Gerase...