The weekly “little of this, little of that” feature from Like Mother, Like Daughter!
Slowly but surely, I am making my way towards pysanky readiness. Just in time for Holy Week. Here we have some eggs that have been emptied and clean: blank canvases. (Different eggshells from the ones I ordered, of course. Those arrived to me as blank canvases. These ones are a separate gig.) Hopefully drawing, waxing, and dying will follow soon.
Baby steps.
This week's links!
- An interesting infographic showing just how deep the black box from that missing flight might be. Intense, tragic – as the whole thing is. Also, the ocean is SO DEEP. The depth of the problem.
- I thought I was fairly familiar with Catholic Social Teaching; even so I found this essay a helpful refresher and learned a lot that I didn't know: Seven Principles of Catholic Social Teaching by Christopher Kaczor from the Catholic Education Resource Center.
- I must admit that I would be tempted to share most articles by Mollie Hemingway that I come across. But this one was particularly good (and, honestly, I needed to read it this week): The Rise of the Same-Sex Marriage Dissidents.
- Well here's a fascinating oddity! An article about Bard College‘s experiment this year in having an “entrance examination” instead of – or rather in addition to – the traditional application. Write four scholarly essays, the professors grade them, if you get a B+ or higher, you're in. Here's the link to the Bard site: http://www.bard.edu/bardexam/questions/
- Rosie states that she will “always read articles about baby naming trends. Always.” If you're like her, you'll enjoy learning about the “weirdest naming trend in American history.” America, Why Are You Naming All Your Boys Like This?
- I've been wanting to share this with you for a while: Giovanni Dettori's “Lady Gaga Fugue” based on “Bad Romance,” played on a 250-year-old organ. Proof that music has the divine quality of drawing the good and the beautiful from… well, let's just say from… unexpected sources.
From the Archives:
- Thinking about Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter, yes I am…
- A Few Little Things to Get Ready for the Easter Triduum.
- Read a little here about Holy Week in the Catholic Tradition. Have a blessed Holy Week!
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Anna says
We’ll, 3 of my 4 boys have names ending in ‘n’, so I guess I’m contributing to the trend. 😉 None of them are in the “Aiden rhyming family” though.
Beth Bullock says
If you click on the article about the naming a trend a very disturbing as for a horror movie plays on the sidebar. It’s nothing you need to click on it just starts. Thought people might want to know.
Lisa G. says
The comments for the boy-naming thing are hilarious – but no, I did not read *all* of them! 🙂
Trisa says
I don’t have the family tradition of psyanky, but did want to share with you the wonderfully fun way we decorated eggs this last year (of which I just put on my table before reading this blog). We started with emptied and cleaned eggs then used permanent markers to draw and decorate on them. The colors are vivid and beautiful. My kids were able to join in and it was EASY! Plus they are just as beautiful this year as before.
Evelyn Lochhead says
Thanks for posting the Mollie Hemingway article – it is fantastic.
Anitra says
I’ve definitely noticed the naming trend, and yes, the “Aiden” family. We’ve been having a long discussion about what to name our next baby (a boy), and if a name is in the top 10 in recent years, it’s right out. Also, I insist our children’s names all be reasonably phonetic and simple to spell. No letter substitutions (like the over-used “y”), please!
Natalie says
Wow, that Mollie Hemingway article was outstanding! I’m glad to know about her. I guess I live under a rock (or in my laundry room) as i missed the whole mozilla scandal…very good read. Thanks for the links!!
Barbara says
You always expand my reading. I know you have to read a lot to find a few jewels to share. I thank you!
Kim F. says
I feel like I have to defend my son’s name here. He was born in Feb. 2003. My husband comes from an extremely large family and a lot of the names we liked were taken (Patrick, Brendan, Connor…) So we found the name Aidan and thought how nice and Irish and not taken in the family. Then it became the #1 boy name of the year!!!! But we were one of the first so we didn’t know. I can’t stand how popular it is and all the misspellings and rhyming names. Years after his birth my sister in law travelled to Ireland to visit family still living there. The name of the home parish that husband’s family attends (and would have attended for who knows how long)…St. Aidan’s! Yeah, for us…there’s a history to the name we chose and we didn’t even know it.
Jan says
I found the “n” ending for boys names hilarious. . . we also have 3 boys with “n” ending names – no Aidan’s but all Irish saints – the names – not the sons – they are holy terrors! We had no clue we were so trendy. LOL
Becky says
Once upon a time I was trained as a preschool teacher. I took many things away from that but the pertinent piece of knowledge is that all attempts at “interesting” names should be middle ones. When she is graduating, she can go with the highly respectable and predictably spelled Jane, or what have you. When she finds herself in 7th grade and desperate to distinguish herself, she can fall back on her middle name of “Jayzmmihen” (Jasmine) We played with fire when we named Noah. It was the 5th most popular name for his birth year but we have yet to run into another, the same age which has puzzled me. Perhaps it’s because there are no real spelling variants?