Just a quick lockdown weekend update – Saturday saw the usual house chores, grocery shopping and a neighbourhood walk and ended with watching some Netflix. I woke early on Sunday and got an hour’s work done on a book I’m putting together before taking our eldest for a short driving lesson in a car park…
Thoughts on The Lord of the Rings
Each evening I read a chapter of JRR Tolkien’s epic, The Lord of the Rings, to our youngest boys. I think this might be my third read through of Frodo the hobbit’s long journey from his home in the Shire in a remote corner of Middle Earth to Mordor’s Mount Doom to destroy the One…
Another lockdown weekend
Yesterday, after watching the usual live-streamed Mass, our teenagers took us on one of their favourite bush walks in our neighbourhood. We’re blessed to live with walking distance of a couple of playgrounds, a sports oval, and little creek-riven reserves, but the best to my mind are these bushland tracks. Soil, rock, water, trees and…
Author interview: Michael D O’Brien and The Lighthouse
Though written before the coronavirus pandemic began, the latest novel by Michael D O’Brien explores themes of isolation, loneliness and the need for connection with others and God. It’s called The Lighthouse and was published by Ignatius Press this month. More than a dozen books, many of them best-sellers including Fr Elijah: An Apocalypse, Elijah in Jerusalem, The…
Marilyn Rodrigues 