Author Archives: gmcdavid
Protected: A brief conversation
Mike Huckabee’s Favorite Author
See The Sneetches.
The Raw Food Movement will not like this….
….But Tony Bourdain will be pleased.
Evolving Bigger Brains through Cooking: A Q&A with Richard Wrangham, Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and this Scientific American article.
Protected: Superhero???
Time’s Person of the Year
Russia has long held a special fascination for me. Continue reading
Philip Pullman vs. C.S. Lewis
No Irish class last night
Gaeltacht Minnesota held its Christmas party at Kieran’s last night. It was a good time, although the room was too hot and the band (when they were playing) too loud for easy conversation.
mia_mcdavid and I felt very fortunate: We managed to find street parking even though the Minnesota Vikings were having a home game nearby.
Lessons and Carols, followed by dinner
Busy Weekend at Church
This evening St. Mary’s is having a Service of Lessons and Carols, followed by a festive dinner. Yesterday I was at the church all morning helping to decorate and move furniture.
Mia stayed home this morning, but I came in for the service. I did not want to miss an Advent Service, and I wanted to satisfy my curiosity about a bit of liturgical trivia: Continue reading