Attended class in Intermediate Organic Chemistry today. Amazingly, I almost understood almost everything – as promised in advance by the guest presenter, Michael Foley ’84. Foley, of Harvard’s Broad Institute, is a compelling speaker, and he is at once all about…
Category: Editing & Writing
Editors, editors …
Just to show that we’re even-handed here at St. Norbert College Magazine, I share these two remarks, both from the Spring 2012 issue – out tomorrow. 🙁 “In fact, Catholic theology … is usually a mess that’s been concocted by editors,…
Seeking cover
A few weeks ago I was at a coffeehouse where friends were reading poetry and, boy, did I want to go home and have a crack at it myself. Now, I can write doggerel at will – a limerick, a…
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…
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…
