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It has been exactly twenty years since I was in graduate school getting a degree in English Literature. The state of the discipline was depr...

When I was a small child, I sang at the mission in Chicago, though I don't remember what any of the songs were. I vaguely remember the t...

(This is a post that I thought I already wrote. I was surprised upon googling my own blog to find that it didn't already exist. Apparent...

I left New Orleans for home yesterday in the rain. To be fair, the weather had been sunny until then. But yesterday morning the view from th...

We have some neighbors we like very much. J. and his wife B. are in their eighties. A few years ago, Eldest Daughter did a wonderful series ...

Dear friends, As most of you learned from the comments below, it turned out that I had a much more serious problem with my ankle and foot th...

So it turns out I'm quite allergic to bee and/or wasp stings. Got stung a week ago today for the first time in my life, as far as I can ...

Over at W4 I've put up a post on my Belgium trip. It's good to be home, though the conference was great. I got to see a little bit ...

I got word a few hours ago by e-mail that a friend of ours named Dale Peeke died this morning. Dale was a member of my church, St. Patrick...

Just in case you all out there in readerland ever say to yourselves, "I wonder what Lydia McGrew is up to in her personal life lately,...

From the intellectual to the mundane: AT & T has gotten increasingly aggressive in their marketing, sending pairs of salesmen (one older...

I am correcting page proofs for our 69-page resurrection article (cum additional pages for the bibliography). I am seeking reader input on t...

Last week my former college roommate (and maid of honor for my wedding) tracked me down after twenty years or so, which pleased me very much...

I've neglected this personal blog a bit lately, but for those of you readers who check in from time to time or trickle by, I've deci...

...in the last couple of days, with content--specifically, a hymn post. Instead I have become embroiled in a probably futile on-line shoppin...