the glory of everything

If you have not read this little book, let me highly recommend it. I am slowly reading and re-reading the chapters covering the sorrowful my...

The latest news of pedophilia in the Catholic Church in Ireland has left me broken. I make the kids' lunch, sweep my floor, and listen t...

So my pictures are old. My blog is somewhat in disrepair, to be sure, ungroomed by its master, unfed. Kicked around some. But that's jus...

I don't know how many of you are prone to accidie, or acedia. I am. It is the bad thought of the monastic life, and other than leaving...

I was smitten with the flu on Wednesday and am currently at the tail end of it (Lord willing). I don't know if it is/was porcine or not,...

Cars is still watched daily in my house. A month ago I was ready to blow my brains out, but I've gotten past it. I've gotten past p...

I am sorry that I have not kept up with my blog, but it has been busy and pushing my blog aside has been one of the better things I have don...

Flannery O'Connor, writing to a friend ("A") about recent criticism the friend had received concerning a book she had written,...

I've been catching up on some Flannery O'Connor short stories that I haven't read for years. Terrific stuff. A reminder: she die...

My wife has been picking up movies at the library, on top of our Netflix picks. She recently brought home Young Frankenstein and after watc...