Title Varies Slightly

After a mere 10 months of pleading, pushing, entangling red tape, and enlisting the help of a nurse caseworker — I have a new manual chair.
My old chair was 10 years old,  literally falling to bits. This chair is  lovely. It feels a little odd; I’ve never had a low-back before. And the custom cushion [...]

This brilliant analysis from Big Arm Woman is an illustration of how ugly conversations can become on the Internet. I hate how shallow and vicious people can be when they are speaking about strangers.
I love Big Arm Woman. She is a marshmallow in a cynic mask.

UPDATE: I got a shirt from Cafe Press. I cannot wait.
Jenny Levine of The Shifted Librarian has the Comedy Central clip from the Colbert Report.
I deeply desire this slogan on a T-shirt. Even if I have to wear a stupid Comedy Central logo along with it. I’d weart it on my desk shift.

Down a ways in my “Muggles” post, I mentioned SQPN. I want to take some time to draw your attention to the wide variety of podcasts there, and encourage you to subscribe to the ones that interest you. I’m not an official SQPN volunteer (although I do contribute to their sister apostolate, Rosary Army), [...]

I love being in parishes with an RCIA program — but I have some regrets. One of them is that every Lent, you hear the alternate Gospels for the Scrutinies, rather than the scheduled readings. And so, yesterday, I heard about Lazarus, Mary, and Martha, and that was wonderful.
But I didn’t get to hear the [...]

Quite a bit of flap about the book The Gospel According to Judas. I had a draft started with my perspective, but Jimmy Akin beat me to the punch and said it better in the bargain.
Go. Read. Ponder.

They can start reading the latest Harry Potter book right along with their sighted friends on July 21, according to this post from The Blind Bookworm.
As you know, National Braille Press will be offering the seventh (and
last) Harry Potter book on the same day it arrives in bookstores across
the country. Many of you have already [...]

I am. I’ve been fighting the creeping crud for weeks. But seeing the photo at the top of Cause of Our Joy makes me smile. And stay for the thoughtful posts. I added them to my blogroll, and I look forward to future visits.

You do read Wheelie Catholic every day, right? So you have likely seen this post from Country of the Blind.
I wasn’t actually surprised to see this, since I have a tangential connection to the Deaf community, and have spent a little time at Gallaudet University, the capital of Deaf culture. Disappointed, but not surprised.
The Deaf [...]

This post is inspired by Ruth’s take on missing Mass.
I walk to Mass. That’s how I think of it. You would probably think of it as “driving your little cart all that way!” as one of my friends said yesterday. In this neighborhood, where I’ve lived for about two years, that takes nearly an hour.
I [...]