rhapsody February 28th, 2008
Dawn Eden will be on
NBC’s “Today” Show
Monday, March 3rd @
10 A.M.ET…
Dawn will discuss her book
The Thrill of the Chaste:
Finding Fulfillment While
Keeping Your Clothes On,
now in its sixth printing. It’s
available in English & Spanish,
with soon-to-be translations
in Chinese & Polish…
Read more about it @
The Dawn Patrol.
& YAY DAWN!!!
rhapsody February 26th, 2008
March
by Ernestine Cobern Beyer
“Ho!” roared March, and his lusty cry
Made all the leaves and papers fly.
The clotheslines leapt at his jovial glance,
And the flannels jigged in a scarecrow dance!
“Hi!” laughed March, and he winked an eye
At a slim young thing who was coming by,
But April fled in her flowery clothes
And slammed spring’s door on his bold red nose!
With thanks, again, to Barbara Beyer Malley,
for permission to post her mother’s wonderful
work.
rhapsody February 23rd, 2008
“… it’s Mildred’s baby!”
Which is what I believe the line
was in the photo Terry posted
from the movie Desk Set, one
of my favorites starring Spencer
Tracy & Katharine Hepburn…
Used to help illustrate Terry’s
autobiographical story, as he
continues with its next chapter,
over on Abbey-Roads.
rhapsody February 18th, 2008
By Ernestine Cobern Beyer
Birthington Biddle (his friends called him Bertie)
Would have been nice if he hadn’t been dirty.
So grubby and grimy was Birthington’s face,
His appearance, alas, was a perfect disgrace.
You see, he believed soap and water were poison,
And tubs were for clothes–not to wash little boys in.
Crusted with dust which flew up from the street,
He grew heavier, daily, and slower of feet.
And though his poor mother could hardly endure him,
She couldn’t, it seemed, either change him or cure him.
On the day he turned ten, Bertie found to his shame,
He could no longer run or take part in a game.
Just one final cinder, just one speck of dust
Had at last overburdened the weight of his crust.
Yes sir, one speck had stopped Bert in his track
Just as one final straw broke the poor camel’s back.
Unable to move, Bertie let out a yelp . . .
A mud-smothered holler: “Help, Mother, help, help!”
Mrs. Biddle came running, and seizing a hose,
She hastily soused him from cowlick to toes.
The water gushed out in a glorious squirt,
And merrily melted his coating of dirt.
Thank goodness, that crust which had made him look fat
Was banished forever in two minutes flat!
His mother was filled with unspeakable joy
As she gazed at her clean little, lean little boy.
This was a day she would never forget–
His birthday! The day Dirty Bertie got wet!
That gurgle-and-slosh day, that sputter-and-splosh day,
Known in the village as Birthington’s Washday!
From Barbara Beyer Malley’s
work in progress,
Awesome Adventures
rhapsody February 16th, 2008
an online biography about Charles
Dickens, by G. K. Chesterton…
Chesterton, “Charles Dickens” (1)
&
Chesterton, “Charles Dickens” (2)
Found through G. K. Chesterton’s
Works on the Web,
and a link from CAF.
rhapsody February 7th, 2008
for getting books reviewed by
the New York Times?
As posted below, Joseph Pearce,
editor and author of many
biographies on, among others,
Alexander Solzhenitsyn and
Oscar Wilde, is coming out
with another book in April,
The Quest for Shakespeare.
It can’t be that the NYT
hasn’t heard of these men…
So what’s the problem?
Joseph Pearce with Alexander Solzhenitsyn
from
An Interview with Alexander Solzhenitsyn,
(St. Austin Review Feb. 2003)
courtesy of the
Catholic Educator’s Resource Center.
***************
rhapsody February 3rd, 2008
Coming in April from Ignatius Press:
THE QUEST FOR SHAKESPEARE:
The Bard of Avon and the Church of Rome,
By Joseph Pearce
And from the Ignatius Critical Editions,
edited by Joseph Pearce:
By William Shakespeare
&
By Emily Bronte
*With many thanks to
Joseph Pearce for permission
to post on his upcoming book.
