With the weather finally turning warm in Boston, I am starting to dream of the semi-leisurely days of summer that are right around the corner. Slowly my academic-year responsibilities drop off, and I have more time here and there. This is when I start to dream of big projects, some of which I might evenContinue reading >>
Stage makeup at Mass
If I were better at marketing myself, or at least at branding my blog, I would just do one thing, and write about that. Do the people who visit the blog because they want to read about singing and performing get disgusted with all this God Stuff? Or do the liturgists who came here forContinue reading >>
A quiet week, and a guest post
I was so disappointed as the week drew to a close that I didn’t expect to be able to pull together my 7 Quick Takes for the week. I have had a love-hate relationship with this practice: first I wrote posts of 7 random things and found it very difficult to come up with something.Continue reading >>
The top seven pieces about the marathon bombings
What a week. As I struggled to make some sense of what happened at the Marathon on Monday, I did a lot of inarticulate, impassioned writing. Because I had so much trouble finding the words to express myself, I was even more impressed by the many people who found all the right words. Here areContinue reading >>
The things that can’t be undone
Last week I was driving down the street when three young women came out of a cafe in the middle of the afternoon. They were dressed in a manner that indicated they wanted to be perceived a certain way: dyed black hair, short kilts with knee socks, heavy chains around their necks, ripped t-shirts with (presumably) gothContinue reading >>
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