August update for the Jameses
Rachel and I are currently listening to the “The Age of Henry VIII” from Great Courses. Rachel just finished coaching her second varsity soccer game. We are traveling to the Lexington area sometime in the upcoming weeks.
I have added a “Now Reading” plug-in from Roblog to Cultured Media: More than a sound byte. I’m almost halfway through Tom Wolfe’s I am Charlotte Simmons. I don’t particularly care for it. It tries to give a summary of everything that’s wrong with American higher-education from the perspective of a naive girl from Appalachian North Carolina. I am enjoying Dana Gioia’s collections of essays on poetry. I’m also in the middle of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. I took a break from it due to the amount of dialog.
I am searching for visual reminders of Christ in this media saturated world but without the pop-culture kitsch of a contemporary Christian bookstore. I have had a renewed interest in saints and icons. I’ve been researching feast days of the liturgical calendars of the Roman Catholic Church and various Eastern Orthodox Churches.
My mom’s laptop came to a halt a few weeks, so she bought a new laptop computer. I inherited her laptop and have not had any problems with it. Now if I can just get my wireless network to work seamlessly and remember the password.
Further Reading on Current Events
- And we wonder why we have a debt problem
- Voting and photographing the election in Indiana
- 2004 Greece Olympics photographs posted