It’s Saturday, so it’s time for my weekly roundup of the blog posts I enjoyed most all week.
Emily Sullivan Sanford explores the notion of health, and the dysfunctional ways Westerners approach it: as a sign of one’s morality. Read What Do You Think Of When You See The Word “Healthy”?
It’s too easy to assume idyll in rural life. Richard Davies dispels it with a wonderfully written personal memoir of a remote Irish town. Read A Rural Idyll in Steady Decline
I’m not Catholic, and I don’t play one on TV. Jaye Watson is Catholic, but probably doesn’t say so in her job as a TV news reporter. She calls herself a “bad Catholic” who loves Pope Francis for shaking up the church. Read What Francis Means to Bad Catholics Like Me
Photographer Mitch Zeissler offers some solid advice about what camera to choose. Hint: go small. Read Recommended Photo Gear — In Praise of Small Cameras