Brigid's Blog

You may have noticed that I've been a bit quiet on the blogging front these days. This is due to 2 things--teaching online classes that ...

My mother and I had an argument today. This is not all that uncommon--we always start off well enough, and then she manages to say something...

I have always struggled with tradition. In many ways, I am very conservative and traditional. In others, I would be considered liberal at be...

Blue Mill Road is a beautiful example of everything people believe New Jersey is not. As you drive down the road, you encounter old colonial...

I'm going to be headed to a conference in Oxford in a few weeks. When I was invited, I was told that the topic was religious liberty. In...

Summer is just about here, and it shows. The air has been as hot and hazy as July. In looking at the weather reports, it appears this trend ...

Yesterday, for the first time in 240,000 miles, I started hearing strange noises in my car. They sound a bit like scraping noises. I’ve look...

The punctuation in the title of this post is dedicated to my cataloging students. Last night I dreamt that I was walking around Brooklyn, an...

Judging from my stats on Google Analytics, a lot of people are waiting for this review. I’m surprised and flattered that people are that in...

On Saturday evening I made the long commute to the Holiday Inn Express in Clinton, NJ (a whopping 10 minute drive) for a ghost hunting event...

Today I saw this post about the GCSE Religion exam in Great Britain. "GCSE" stands for "General Certificate of Secondary Edu...

Do you remember when this sign appeared in Austin, Texas? Well, they weren't kidding: You can read the full blog post on this here . If ...

Perception is so untrustworthy. Frequently your perceptions are based on how much your brain and/or your body hate you on a particular day. ...

Glenn Beck reminds me of a rabid dog, with the difference being that dogs are smarter. (Yes, even rabid ones). My father watches him religio...

It's been a few days since I've done any blogging, but not without reason. May has been the Month of Panic, as I've got online l...

It’s nothing short of a miracle that I got out of bed and to work on time this morning. Every day I wake up feeling like I’ve transmuted int...

If you live in New Jersey, you're hearing a lot of garbage about "sacrifice" these days, specifically from the Governor's ...

WAMFEST was pretty much everywhere last week. If you don't know what that is--it's the Words And Music Festival organized by David ...