Category: Controversies
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The Caffeine in the Cappuccino of Life
I was once famous among women on Catholic campuses (like Notre Dame, Indiana) as “Auntie Seraphic”. The source of my notoriety was my blog “Seraphic Singles” where I wrote whatever […]
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The Cobbler’s Daughter
While I was in Lourdes, I read something very funny online by some folks who confuse transitory pastoral advice with immutable doctrine and are opposed to social dancing. Their post […]
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Or am I Herräng?
Herräng Dance Camp is legendary among swing-dancers. It takes place in a small village in Sweden every summer. Sometimes when I forget I am not in my twenties, I think […]
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Culture and costume
Lent being over, I went to a Lindy Hop social this week. There I joined a friend, saw many regulars and met a young lady visiting from Switzerland. She had […]
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Restoring the culture
I had many opportunities this week to think about Western Civilisation and its 20th century rupturing. First, I got down to writing my review of Anna Kalinowska’s Clothed with Beauty: […]
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Things that are of edification
Back home in Canada my father has U.S. Civil War battlefield letters written or preserved by some American ancestor. One epistle is dated July 4, and the writer reminisces about […]
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What I wish everyone knew about social dancing
I used to participate in a martial art. Many people have opinions about this practice, but the more they know about it, the more they respect it. And if such […]
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Burning floors
Dancing was so much a part of Catholic social life in the 20th century West, and forbidding dancing so much associated with Anabaptist sects, that it came as a surprise […]
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The Ballroom Competition
For Sunday I planned something very new for MMWP: a trip to the Edinburgh University Ballroom Dance Society’s Inter-College Dance Competition (Waltz and Cha-Cha). It was one of my more […]
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Totally waisted
One of the sad things about popular dancing in the West is that the “fast dances” gave way to partnerless flailing and ballroom became “slow dancing.” “Slow dancing”, when I […]