Monthly Archives: March 2008

Interesting article from The Age on the subject of sin. It’s overloaded with quotes, but it talks about society’s diminishing belief in sin. Which isn’t anything new. The article was precipitated by the Vatican’s recent announcement of the 7 social … Continue reading →

Great story of a guy who gets mugged, last month, by a teenager in the Bronx, and ends up treating the kid to dinner. [Read here]

My Name is Russell Fink by Michael Snyder is a recent novel out in the Christian market.  It’s a quirky novel and I mean that in a good way. If Quirk was a genre this would be in it. Quirky … Continue reading →

The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz is the story of three generations of one Dominican family. Its main character is Oscar, the fat, lazy, lonely, dorky, nerdy, dweeby, unhip, uncool, always-will-be-a-virgin Oscar, and his subsequent … Continue reading →

When a pair of human bones are dug up on Tina and Trixie’s commune, the Portland community is in an uproar about who the bones belong to: the local Native Americans or to Science for further study. Somehow the bones … Continue reading →

Philip Roth’s Exit Ghost is the latest (and possibly last) of his Nathan Zuckerman novels. Roth enthusiasts love to find the similarities between the fictional Zuckerman and real Roth and Roth appears to advocate that looking to close makes it … Continue reading →

The University of Portland baseball team beat 8th ranked University of Michigan 4-3 in 10 innings on Friday. Earlier in the week the Michigan Wolverines tied the New York Mets in an exhibition game. Also, earlier in the week, University … Continue reading →