Month: February 2012

February, booked

Bookending the month with a few notes on things read, noted, seen, heard. READ The Life of St. Norbert (Vita B). Pleasantly surprised to find this 12th century hagiography, which started ominously enough, turned into a real page-turner. (This was assigned…

Props to Nicole II

Intern Nicole Jagielski has assembled a pretty impressive body of work in her short time with the magazine, and she shows it off to very good – and enjoyable – effect in her own blog. We encourage our publications interns to…

Collecting my (Lenten) thoughts

In church yesterday, the collect of the day certainly caught my attention. It was First Sunday in Lent – one of the collects on which I wrote for Faith of Followers. This collection of brief reflections on the collects of the Book…

January, booked

Bookending the month with a few words on things read, noted, seen, heard. READ Crucial Conversations. Recent epic conversational Fail sent me back to this extremely helpful book. READ A Whole New Mind. Enjoyed this while awaiting results (good) of…

Props to Nicole

Intern Nicole Jagielski is getting strict with me about developing my professional home page, where this new blog is hosted. Nicole became an ardent blogger herself during her study-abroad semester in Australia. A senior at St. Norbert, she is now…

First post

College editors may have the best job in the world. They preside over what may be the last of the true general-interest magazines. They get to have all the fun of their counterparts in the commercial world without having to…