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- About Last Night — Terry Teachout on the Arts
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- American Culture
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- Anne Brannen — a fellow medievalist, Richard Thompson fan, and exceedingly cool person.
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- Ball State English Blog — One of the Prof's alma maters (even though they may not want to claim him)
- Better View of the Moon — Poet Karen Craigo
- Bleat — James Lileks
- Bob's Blog
- Book Collecting 101 — Indulge your bibliomania.
- Brambles, Buttress, Sky
- Catholic Coffeetalk — One of my Twitter Peeps (Youthful Division)
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- College Insurrection — A Spot on the Right Side of Academia
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- Disrupt the Narrative
- Ditching the Party — A Playwright, Former Classmate and Cool Person
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- Dr. Boli's Celebrated Magazine
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- Ed Kurtz — A Horror Writer and Good Guy
- Educated Imagination — A blog about the Prof's hero, Northrop Frye
- Embedded Theologian — Politics, Culture, Eclectica
- English Grad Student Shaming
- Far Side of the World — A Mondovillian Heads to Malaysia
- Fear and Loathing in Georgetown (FLG)
- Fencing Bear at Prayer
- Fenster Moop — A Quirky Edublogger
- Free Thoughts — Libertarianism.org's blog
- G. Ross Key — The guy who helped me stay fairly sane in my M.A. program
- Geoffrey Chaucer's Blog
- Gormogons
- Gypsy Scholar — an academic operating from Korea. Blogging, bulgogi, and bi bim bap — hard to beat!
- Haligweorc
- Harmless Drudgery — A Blogging Lexicographer
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- I Think Therefore I Err
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- Iconoclast — New English Review
- Image — Arts and Culture from a Christian Perspective
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- Left-Wing Institute for Civil Discourse
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- Medievalists.net
- Merlin's Musings — A Recent Arrival in My Old Stomping Grounds
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- New and Improved Me — A former student who claims to have minored in Mondoism. See the damage I've done.
- New Atlantis — At the Intersection of Science and Culture
- New Criterion
- New World In My View — A Lawyer Putting Her Money Where Her Faith Is.
- Nice Deb
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- Northward Contrail
- NRO's The Corner
- Otto's Random Thoughts — Frequent Commenter J. Otto Pohl's Blog
- Pearls, Manners, and Life — A Former Student and Current GOP Operative
- Peter's Power Pop
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- Practical Historian — One stop for education and serotonin!
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- Stormfields — Postings from a professor at Hillsdale
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- The Berries are GO! — My band's blog.
- The Blog that Was Thursday
- The Happy Serf — A Former Neighbor's Perspective
- The Misadventures of Katie — a bass-playing Clash fan and former student
- The Port Stands At Your Elbow
- Themes
- Thoughts from the Corner Office
- Thoughts Inserted Here — A former advisee considers things.
- Tim Kowal at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen
- Transterrestrial Musings — A dextrospheric space blog
- University Diaries
- Unlocked Wordhoard — Medieval stuff
- What's Wrong With the World
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Category Archives: Faith
So Long, James.
James Kolasa, one of my best friends from my years in Lexington, died this morning. I can’t say it was out of a clear blue sky — he had been in failing health for some time, in fact longer than … Continue reading
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Happy Easter, 2022
As I posted on social media this morning: When I was young, Christmas was my favorite holiday, and I grew to love the unlikeliness of God in the manger. As I am older and have learned of loss, I have … Continue reading
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Lenten Devotional, 2022
As long-time readers of this blog know, the college sponsors devotionals during certain times of year — most notably Advent and Lent. Members of the college community write and record them, and they’re shared on a local radio station and … Continue reading
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Boxing Day Update…
So I cleaned up the Christmas dinner a little while ago. Let me explain. After yesterday’s post, the turkey was in the oven and Clan Mondo (with Special Guest Star The Main Squeeze) was kicking back. Mrs. M was watching … Continue reading
Merry Christmas, 2021
I was the last to sleep last night, and last to rise this morning, at about 9:30. My haul included about ten books (including some Ross Thomas and Donald Westlake, along with relatively recent bios of Housman and, of course, … Continue reading
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Friday Afternoon Potpourri: ‘Twas the Day before Christmas Edition
Many of Mrs. M’s preparations for Christmas dinner are underway. The Spawn and Main Squeeze are chatting with her and (I suspect) looking at pictures of something cute, judging from the choruses of “Aw”s drifting down the stairs to me. … Continue reading
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Veterans’ Day Potpourri
It’s 7:30 p.m. as I start this post, but with the Standard Time sunset and an afternoon meeting, it feels much later in the day. But even though “the night cometh, when no man can work,” that doesn’t mean a … Continue reading
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Sunday Afternoon Potpourri: 55 in the Rearview Edition
Today is the last day of my 55th trip around the sun. Shortly before I wake up tomorrow morning, I’ll hit 56. Eight years ago today, I was driving home to Mondoville after the conclusion of my brother’s trial, and … Continue reading
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Happy Independence Day, 2021
No, our nation isn’t perfect — nor will it be, as it’s made up of people. But its promise is greater than that of the nations that preceded it, and it’s still the place where much of the world dreams … Continue reading
Sunday Potpourri: Noises and Books
I’m in my office this afternoon; the Summer term starts tomorrow, and I have a few things to put in order today. Meanwhile… *** Yesterday was the twelfth anniversary of my parents’ murders at the hands of my brother, the … Continue reading
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