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How Am I to Love Neighbors Such as These?
One Saturday morning, I came upon a collage of...
25 January 2025 – What Squirrels do in Winter, How Many Miles is a League, How Much of Spain had been Conquered, the Butchering Bird
My son asked me why there were squirrels everywhere despite the frigid temperatures. "Don't they hibernate?" He'd seen...
Election Season and the Maccabean Revolt
Maybe the world isn’t run by lizard people per...
Fending Off Cougars in the Age of Divorce
I have a bunch of kids and I homeschool and I pretend to be a writer so I...
How Am I to Love Neighbors Such as These?
One Saturday morning, I came upon a collage of pictures of smiling men in...
25 January 2025 – What Squirrels do in Winter, How Many Miles is a League, How Much of Spain had been Conquered, the Butchering Bird
My son asked me why there were squirrels everywhere despite the frigid temperatures. "Don't they hibernate?" He'd seen it on SpongeBob so it must be...
Election Season and the Maccabean Revolt
Maybe the world isn’t run by lizard people per se, but lately, I can...
Book Review: Babbitt
by: Sinclair Lewis Babbit was written in the 1920s by Sinclair Lewis who was a socialist. Normally, a socialist's commentary on American...
The Children’s Mass
There were a lot of babies and children at Mass. Their sounds filled the air. There was crying, laughing, burbling, shouting, loud...
Book Review: Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley This was another book on Joseph Pearce’s "100 Works of Literature Every Catholic Should Read" list. In the beginning,...
Mainstreaming Raw Dog
(Mom and Dad, if you read this, I forbid you from Googling that phrase! Trust me, you don't want to know.)...
My One Temptation to Protestantism
My one temptation to Protestantism is their lack of the sacrament of...