Miniature San Francisco
San Francisco: The Miniature City from MINIMUS on Vimeo. I love my city! Hat tip to Laughing Squid.
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Test Post: BB App
I just downloaded the WordPress application for my Blackberry. Just wanted to post something random to test it out. Hi! :)
Back-to-School Memories
September always brings back memories of character lunchboxes, 64-color boxes of crayons, pink erasers, and Catholic school uniforms. A recent trip to the local Target took me to the back-to-school section. Parents with school supply lists of required materials and kids with their own ideas of what was needed for school crowded the already crowded section. Spiral wide-ruled notebooks and glue sticks litters the aisles–remainders of a $0.99 school supply sale and last-minute shopping. While observing the parents and their [...]
Agatha Christie at 120
Today marks the 120th birthday anniversary of the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie. In her lifetime, the beloved and internationally-known mystery writer wrote 80 novels and created some of the literary world’s best loved characters. Who has not heard of Miss Marple or Inspector Hercule Poirot at least once? The feisty spinster with her nose for detail and the little Belgian detective with his keen skills of observation are, perhaps, the forerunners of every well-known literary detective in the modern [...]
Calming the noise: Spirituality for a crazy world
U.S. Catholic recently sent a call out for young adult guest bloggers to discuss what it is like to be a young adult Catholic in the Church today. I contributed the below blog post to its new My Generation blog. It appeared on the site today. ———————————————————————— Calming the noise: Spirituality for a crazy world Tuesday, September 14, 2010 Catholic spiritual traditions have a lot to offer young adults seeking clarity in uncertain times, one millenial finds. Guest blog by [...]
A Jesuit Olive?
Did the post title catch your interest? If it did, I should probably tell you up front that there is no such thing as a Jesuit olive. There is, however, an olive that knows plenty about Jesuit history, particularly that of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Check it out! This creative, fun, engaging, and educational video was written, produced, and narrated by Jason Kapell of the Fairfield University Media Center. I think it is fantastic!
From Fallible Blogma: Now This is Communion
Matthew Warner over at Fallible Blogma wrote a terrific post yesterday about Communion in the Catholic Church. I thought it was so on point and well-written that I wanted to share it with my readers. Here’s the link: Now This is Communion What Matt makes clear is something that I wrote in my Master’s thesis only a few months ago. When we participate in the Catholic Mass and receive Christ in Holy Communion we are participating with millions around the [...]
Can Your Dog Merengue?
I don’t know if my dog can merengue. In fact, I don’t even have a dog so that would be difficult to find out in the first place. That being said, if I HAD a dog I would love for my dog to, at the very least, bounce to the rhythm of the beat. Could I ever expect it to dance a highly choreographed routine? A few days ago I would have said, “no way!” Today, I’m reminded that anything [...]
This is Talent
In these days of Auto-Tune and carefully crafted song arrangements, live performances can sometimes surprise us. The singers whose voices we hear on the radio or on our favorite iTunes download don’t always sound the same live–sometimes a little pitchy, maybe out of tune, not at all polished. It is refreshing to hear pure voices and true talent. A few years ago there was a talent competition on CBS called Rockstar. The first season was called Rockstar: INXS where the [...]
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