I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this book before -- The Habit of Being , a collection of letters by Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)...

In 1919, in the confused and disillusioned world immediately following the First World War, the poet W. B. Yeats wrote a poem (“ The Second ...

Obviously upset about the U. S. Bishops’ decision to address the issue of Eucharistic coherence — i.e., the reception of the Eucharist by th...

First, a brief note on the resumption of our Bible Study sessions: God willing, we should be able (I hope) to resume our weekly Bible Study ...

Man, am I bummed! Betelgeuse isn’t going to explode…at least not real soon.  If, like me, you’re an avid fan of things astronomical, you’ll ...

For years I’ve been a voice crying in the wilderness, unheard by anyone who really cares. What have I been crying about? Intercollegiate ath...

Thanks to the malleable, easily manipulated science of the “experts,” we’ve all spent more than a year i mprisoned in our homes by COVID. Ok...

Just some more spontaneous thoughts that come to me as I sit for four hours in a very uncomfortable chair waiting for dentists to finish the...

First, I’ve neglected the blog for a week or so because our elder daughter and her five children have been visiting. One, the eldest of the ...

A few years ago Diane and I spent a long weekend in St. Augustine, Florida. We stayed at the St. Francis Inn , an absolutely wonderful B...

I had to run  a few errands this morning and happened to be wearing an old Navy ballcap. When I entered the local hardware store, the young ...

Note: As I finished writing this post, I realized it was far too long, but rather than edit and compress it, I decided to leave it alone in ...

A few years ago Diane and I enjoyed a wonderful two-week vacation in the UK, followed by a trans-Atlantic cruise back home to Florida. Other...