Notes from Greencastle

Aug. 20, 2007

FYI re: Living Wage Discussion

Bethune Catholic is doing a bit of a back-and-forth with this blog on the living wage question. So you can go there to see comments on my entries here. Jim also has a busier blog right now for general reading purposes, for those greencastle fans now wasting away in the current blogging drought.

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Nov. 30, 2006

This nice blog I like

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Dymphna's Well (http://dymphnaswell.blogspot.com). My very tired brain is not mustering much to say tonight, so time for another link. And all I can think to say about it, is that it's just this nice blog. Run by one of the ladies from the NFP forum, and a reliable source of catholic inspiration. Just nice. Go visit.

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And, ahem, here is how I rationalized having our Christmas tree up before it was even Advent, responding to the "Just Wait" post at Dymphna's Well:

1. Advent is awfully short this year. I'm sure we can hang on to our festiveness through Epiphany even with the tree up at least a week early.
2. The SuperHusband brought it home and set it up. With the kids. What was I going to do?
3. It's a pretend tree. Just the thing if you're pretending the holidays are here when they are not.
4. We haven't decorated it yet. So that counts for something, right?

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Oct. 16, 2006

Oh and there's the b-team badge

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Most of the traffic here lately seems to be coming from the b-team website, but here's an explanation for the visitors who come in from homeschoolblogger or elsewhere. The B-team is a collection of amateur catholic bloggers. I'm one. So I get to post that nifty b-team badge, which sometimes works.

Anyhow, if you click on the blue B, or on the little red rectangle on days when the the badge icon isn't working properly, it brings you a treasure trove of other amateur catholic blogs. You might like some of them.

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Oct. 16, 2006

I put up some links

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Here's a review what they are, and why you should visit them while I am on vacation:

•the Ironic Catholic I love satire. I love Catholic satire even more. If I could only have one website, this would be it. And if you travel in evangelical circles, as I do, you will love IC's link to the Lark, evangelical satire wonderland.
• Bethune Catholic Mr. SuperHusband (the non-catholic) has met more catholic celebrities than I have, and this is one of them. Multiple sources report the Curley's are super nice people, and one day I might know for myself. Meanwhile, if you aren't from SC you may not understand just how funny a name like "Bethune Catholic" is. Sort of like saying the "Irish Shiites". Rural SC just isn't known for its large catholic populations.    Anyhow it's an enjoyable blog, and you oughta support Requiem Press while you're there.

• Scrutinies - This blog belongs to a friend of a friend of friends, who also frequents the NFPtalk forum at delphi. Just plain funny, especially if you like to teach, like catholicism, and also have young children.

• Mark Shea's Blog - Catholic and Enjoying It! - I have found several of Mark Shea's books to be very helpful. He's the kind of writer who explains theology so that people like me can turn around and explain it to the fifth grade CCD class.    One thing I like about his blog is that he is firmly catholic, but not firmly republican (or democrat). Lately he has been blogging a lot about how not only is torture evil, it's also just plain wrong. There's other good stuff too. I do wish he'd go with a more cheerful color-scheme, but people probably wish mine were less cheerful, so I suppose it all evens out in the wash.

• Jimmy Akin's Blog
• the Curt Jester
• Amy Wellborn's Blog - Open Book

Three more good catholic blogs. Mr. SuperHusband spoke to Amy Wellborn once after one of her presentations. He reports she's the kind of person I would probably like, which explains why I enjoy her blog so much.   I discovered the Curt Jester for its satire, but it actually seems to be mostly serious stuff lately. If you go to Jimmy Akin's blog, do search for the canon law analysis of "I Am My Own Grandpa" that appeared relatively recently.

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Why "Greencastle"?

We have a green castle in our back yard. We named our school after the castle. (We were required to name it something. I don't know why. It was on the form.) Now I've named my blog after our school. Because it's supposed to be a blog about our homeschool. But I blog about other things, too.