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MrsDarwin's post last week on the modern re-imagining of Sense & Sensibility being written by Joanna Trollope generated some intere...

MrsDarwin here posting under Darwin's name, because Google finds it incredible that two people might use the same computer and write, un...

For your Monday morning: A map of most common name given to newborns by state over the last 60 years. One of the things that struck me is t...

Ah, tiresome writers who want to meddle with Austen we will always have with us . For a British novelist writing about class, manners and ...

1. Baby Darwin is due in eight weeks, which means that Christmas is in less than nine weeks. ARE YOU READY, PEOPLE. This due date is goi...

Neither of us will be participating in National Novel Writing Month this year. MrsDarwin is making slow but constant progress on wrapping u...

Among Catholics who hope (or fear) that Pope Francis's new style indicates that Church doctrine and practice are up for grabs, the annou...

I was struck by this piece which contrasts the movie 12 Years a Slave (which I'm eager to go see) with other depictions of struggling ag...

One of the areas in which my thinking has developed in directions that I would not have expected, going from being a homeschooled student (i...

On audiobook, I've been wrapping up re-reading War & Peace , while in print I've been reading David Herrmann's The Arming of...

It's Friday, and that means things are pretty lax around here (just like Monday through Thursday, really). Today the kids decided to pla...

This piece over at The American Conservative about the fuss surrounding Guido Barilla's statements about homosexuality and the tradition...

There's been a certain amount of solemn nonsense going around about what it means to truly live a Christian live and evangelize. Are ho...

We went out this weekend to help Betty Duffy celebrate her birthday in style at her parents' house in rural Indiana. The weather was pe...

Sometimes an article includes such a jarring historical claim that I find myself immediately questioning everything in the piece. That was ...

I've had to do a bit of research on Karol Wojytła lately (Pope John Paul II of blessed memory) for an article I'm writing, and thoug...

These guys sing better than you do. Your moment of beauty for the day:  the sound of crickets, slowed down . They sing in full ethere...

There's an odd backwards moral reasoning to which our modern age seems particularly susceptible. Surely you've heard it: Y does X....

Pope Francis's interview with atheist journalist Eugenio Scalfari may not have grabbed secular headlines in the US the way that this int...