I'm writing this post about procrastination ahead of time, because we are headed east to the mid-west on our annual summer trip to visit our Southside Irish relations. I hope the space time continuum will be okay. We have a winner of the Monastic Immersion Weekend...
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Fun, Feasting, and Beating the Devil With Swords: a Family Michaelmas
The first I ever heard of Michaelmas was in Pride and Prejudice and Middlemarch and other olden-timey English books. Apparently, it was one of the four days during the year on which servants were hired and rents were collected, so it comes up a lot...
A Backyard Zip-Line (and other Iowa awesomeness)
Just to further confuse those of you who thought we lived in LA, but then thought it seemed liked we lived in Chicago, I'm currently blogging at you from Ames, Iowa: home of the Cyclones and my lovely sister and her family. We're on a vacation-in-a-vacation as it...