CHRIST IN WINTER:
Reflections on Faith and Life for the Years of Winter…
I don’t check the
“comments” section of this blog very often, because there usually aren’t any.
Some folks have said they tried to comment but BlogSpot would not cooperate.
Even if BlogSpot were more amenable, there just isn’t much reason to comment.
Recently, though, I did check the comments, and found something quite
interesting.
It is in the comments
section of my CIW for March 15, on having a happy childhood in old age. There
are a whole lot of comments in Arabic there. I had Google translate them. They
seem to be a number of businesses, at least some in Egypt, trying to convince
one another to buy their products.
Doesn’t seem to make any
sense on an English language blog with a name like Christ In Winter, unless you
are communicating in code [We have refrigerators for sale. What caliber do you want…] in a place on the
internet where no one is likely to notice.
Daughter Katie Kennedy has
first-name friends in the CIA, because she calls the CIA to ask about how to
shoot down an asteroid and how to detonate a remote-controlled rocket and such
for her books, in the YA contemporary sci-fi genre. They say they are used to
her, but I am reserving every-other-Sunday visiting hours, just in case.
Anyway, she had one of
their analysts look at it. Says she doesn’t think it is anything untoward but
that I should report it, anyway, just to be careful. So I have. Which probably
means that since you read this blog, you are now on a couple of lists, one in
Arabic and one in CIA code. You’re welcome.
JRMcF
Katie Kennedy is the
rising star in YA lit. She is published by Bloomsbury, which also publishes
lesser authors, like JK Rowling. Her latest book is, What Goes Up. It’s published in hardback, paperback, audio, and
electronic, from B&N, Amazon, etc. Also, check out Learning to Swear In America, about teen-age Russian genius
physicist Yuri, who must save Los Angeles from an asteroid strike, while also
meeting American hippie girl Dovie, and…
Speaking of writing, my
most recent book, VETS, about four
homeless and handicapped Iraqistan veterans, is available from Amazon, Barnes
& Noble, etc. It’s published by Black Opal Books.
It’s neat; in writing
circles, Katie is no longer known as my daughter. Now I am known as her father.
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