Sunday, January 18, 2009

An evening...

reading and working, at the v. pleasant house where I am staying, near the EWTN TV studios on the outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama. I am still busy with the Crusades, excellent article by Fr Nicholas Schofield in Faith magazine v. useful.

Stopped for a while to look at some TV...not having a television set at home I enjoyed tapping away at handset while sipping mug of cocoa....golly, what a lot of drivel there is out there. But a lengthy trawl produced some goodies: quantities of news-n-comment things of course on the forthcoming Inauguration, some dated but amusing British comedy stuff (what kind of impression of Britain do Americans get?), a glimpse of some soap operas abounding in cliches.

EWTN shows up rather well. Some features are definitely worthwhile, eg Marcus Grodi on "Coming Home' - genial, well-informed. (He has a website too - try here).

3 comments:

sandraoflynn said...

I have enjoyed your Feasts and Seasons, shows with you and your husband, interviews with Fr. Mitch recently. I look forward to your new series. Take care and keep up the good work.

Anonymous said...

What an amazing time to be in the US! Sounds like you are having a lot of fun and being well looked after. Good on you!

I'm looking forward to hearing about today's celebrations in your part of the country. How exciting to be there for the start of this new era in American history!

Fr Longenecker said...

Naughty Auntie Joanna. You were going to come to South Carolina and visit the Longeneckers next time you came to USA!