Category: Pop Culture

Susan Boyle: Cracking America

Simon Cowell and Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber are helping Susan Boyle crack America. Hear Susan here. Susan Boyle has a new swanky apartment in London, an album that will be released at Thanksgiving, a makeover, whiter teeth, a personal assistant, and will tour the states in November to promote her new work. She hopes to…

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‘Under the Spell of Susan Boyle… ‘

Andrew Lloyd Webber is “under the spell of Susan Boyle” according to the UK Telegraph. It seems there may be a part for her in his musical, “Whistle Down the Wind.” Read the very interesting story here. Susan made world-wide attention when she “sang like an angel,” and shocked the judges and audience with her…

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The Definition of Light

I relish a long afternoon alone–with my husband and daughter out of the house and the sun saturating the room with that special end-of-the-day kind of light, where the shadows are long and the minutes tick away leisurely as I enjoy a cup of tea, a book, or sometimes… nothing… doing just nothing.  These long,…

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William F. Buckley and the Jews

William F. Buckley Jr. once said, “In my own experience anti-Semitism is not a communicable disease.” John B. Judis in his biography William F. Buckley Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives states that Buckley grew up with attitudes of Jewish hatred in his home. Later in life, Buckley learned that “anti-Semitism is not a communicable disease” through his own…

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Fodder for Thought…

  Here is some fodder for thought and a different take on the movie, “There Will be Blood” than mine. Here is my post last week where I wrote some of my opinions of the movie. 

Decline of Heroes

  The world is a buzz with the sudden and tragic death of Heath Ledger. I am sad at the untimely death of any human soul. Ledger’s passing made me ponder afresh the world’s clamor for a hero and ask the question why we chose people like him to worship. We are created to worship and the desire to…

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