Feb
25
GODTUBE, DAY 19: Words upon words upon words upon
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In the 19 days since I gave up television, I’ve read three entire books for pleasure. This alone is worth all the effort.
I’ve taken to reciting the Lord’s Prayer recently. The language is so beautiful. If I’m particularly tense, I close my eyes and start by reciting it slowly, focusing on my breathing, in and […]
Feb
18
As part of my internship, I’ve also begun to blog over at First Person Arts’ blog. (You can tell it’s me because my name appears in itty-bitty print just below the title and just west of the date and time.) I’ll definitely be doing the weekly FOUND IN PHILLY series (where I share tidbits on […]
Feb
12
The weather outside? Frightful.
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Outside its cold and slush and windy. The sidewalks are coated in the kind of white chalky salt that melts ice but gets stuck in the treads of your shoes and plays like a gristly maraca on any kind of linoleum floor. Your faces are chapped and your cheeks are red and—if you’re anything like […]
Feb
12
Earlier I took a nap and almost turned on the television to lull me to sleep. Then I remembered, and instead grabbed “Traveling Mercies,” by Anne Lamott, which has kept me on the straight and narrow for the last week. And, again, today.
Feb
11
GODTUBE, DAY 6: Gladiate, my good men! Gladiate!
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Matt and Kyle just walked by my room and invited me to join them for American Gladiator, a pseudo-reality show where steroid-popping neanderthals smack each other with foam Q-tips while grunting and dragging their knuckles. Normally, I would find such displays reprehensible. Tonight, I’m oddly compelled to join them.
Feb
9
Update your holiday calendars accordingly.
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False Fire Alarm Day is a annual holiday celebration held on February 9 at Messiah College Philadelphia Campus that honors and celebrates fire alarms that activate with no provocation, often when least expected.
Modern customs of the holiday include rousting grumpy, poorly rested college students from their beds as early as 7:30 a.m. with a […]
Feb
6
All dressed up, with everywhere to go.
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Many thanks to Messiah’s trusty college webmaster, Matt Brandt, for helping revamp my site’s wardrobe. There’s nothing like a new outfit to get you feeling really, really good.
Feb
6
Ashes to ashes…
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While dedicated Catholics barricade themselves against today’s unseasonable highs and trundle off to the nearest parish to have a robed rector spread two smudges across their forehead, I’m sitting on the seventeenth floor of Philly’s PNB building and sorting through a list of Philadelphia blogs, looking for a few good sites where I can solicit […]