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Possessed by Victoriana

To say that I am old fashioned would be an understatement. If I could work my will, the automobile would go the way of the dodo, and we would return to those thrilling days of yester-year when the air and streets were thick with horse by-product and its attendant cholera and lock-jaw.

Seven years [...]

Interviews with Br Jeremiah, Part 1

One comes to simplicity through a rather tangled forest of complex and sophisticated thought processes.

I have, from time to time, relied on my friend and persona Brother Jeremiah of the Order of Buile Suibhne (OBS) to write on subjects of a spiritual nature or on observations regarding the practice of religion in America, one [...]

Post-Racial? Not If They Can Help It!

“Assume a virtue if you have it not
That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat,
Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.”
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Not THAT Jersey Shore, THE Jersey Shore, 1965

As usual, I am so ahead of the curve that I have only recently become aware of the MTV series, Jersey Shore. Normally I don’t, with a few exceptions, get involved in series TV, so I have no intention of allowing myself to become addicted to this show. What little I have seen [...]

Come Away, Oh Human Child

An excerpt from “O’Shaughnessey: The Faerie Circle”

After her father, Bobby Mahoney, is taken by the Faerie King Finvarra and held prisoner under Knockmaa in Galway, twelve-year-old Margaret is made to confront the possibility that everyone in the world is not dotty, and that there really might be an “invisible world,” that Moira McCarthy might be [...]