Pages

▼
Friday, March 25, 2011

It's a boy!

›
Our fourth grandbaby, due September 9, is a boy. His parents saw his anatomically correct picture yesterday, and his father posted it on the...
1 comment:
Thursday, March 24, 2011

THE LINCOLN LAWYER, the movie

›
A short note for my fellow Michael Connelly fans - The Lincoln Lawyer  is worth watching. Opening last weekend, it ranked in fourth place. N...
Monday, March 14, 2011

THE SOCIAL ANIMAL by David Brooks

›
Last December a couple of magazine editors asked me to read a galley of David Brooks's then-forthcoming book, The Social Animal: A Story...
Thursday, March 10, 2011

What civil discourse sounds like

›
Like you, I have friends who lean left and friends who lean right. Sometimes we all get along just fine, sometimes we annoy one another, and...
5 comments:
Saturday, March 5, 2011

Food bullies

›
Back in the 70s, a little truck-stop restaurant in the wilds of Eastern Washington became locally famous because its French patronne  did no...
3 comments:
Monday, February 28, 2011

WHY STAY CATHOLIC? by Michael Leach

›
"Why in the hell would an intelligent Episcopalian woman choose to become a Catholic?" I had been a Catholic for less than six mo...
1 comment:
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

A TALE OF TWO CITIES and GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens

›
Oprah's 2-in-1 edition I was thrilled when a friend phoned me a week ago Friday to ask if I'd read A Tale of Two Cities and Great Ex...
3 comments: