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My Time at a Book of Job Fantasy Camp

            The past couple of months, we’ve been living in what I affectionately call...

Gen X Men Do Have Feelings, It Just Takes an Alien Robot to Reach Them

On August 26th, 2026, my social media was filled with devastated men announcing the death of Peter Cullen.  The name sounded familiar, but...

The UFC: A Study of Masculinity

            How did I find myself here?  It’s after midnight –well past my 9...

Signing on to Be a Parent, Come What May

A Youtuber I’d never heard of and his wife went insanely viral yesterday.  By insanely viral, I mean, I went from having never heard of...

The Children’s Mass

            There were a lot of babies and children at Mass.  Their sounds filled the air.  There was crying,...

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Book Review: Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley             This was another book on Joseph Pearce’s "100 Works of Literature Every Catholic Should...

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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.)...

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Book Review:The Whipping Boy

Book Review:The Whipping Boy

by Sid Fleischman  When buying books for the next school year, there was a Sid Fleischman book on the list that I purchased which must have been...

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Book Review: The Black Arrow

Book Review: The Black Arrow

by Robert Louis Stevenson             The novel opens with the murder of a man by a black arrow.  A letter is later found attached to a door that...

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