Wow! I have my own blog! I hope to fill it with scintillating prose that will provoke the few who read it to think and examine and perhaps even come to new and exciting conclusions. Who am I? I am the wife of one husband and the mother of eight children. I am a Christian (in spite of my faults), a Republican (in spite of their faults) and a reader of books. Right now I am reading Patrick, Son of Ireland by Stephen R. Lawhead. The book is a fictionalized biography of St. Patrick set in about the fourth century AD. I have read several of Lawhead’s other novels, and although he teeters on the edge of paganism, a Christian worldview seems to win out most of the time. His books are all set in the early centuries of the Christian era, and most have something to do with Celtic history. The Patrick book, so far, is absorbing and thought-provoking. How would a spoiled young nobleman react to being taken into slavery by Irish barbarians?