I have a bunch of kids and I homeschool and I...
Essays
How Am I to Love Neighbors Such as These?
One Saturday morning, I came upon a collage of...
Election Season and the Maccabean Revolt
Maybe the world isn’t run by lizard people per...
The Man Who Was Thursday vs. The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Exercise in Literature
At the beginning of the summer, I came down with some sort of virus that made me ill for about a day or two and then feeling much better but drained of all energy in the subsequent week and a...
If They Were All One Part, Where Would the Body Be? Or, I am a Foot
Sometimes I am sad because I am not a great evangelist or because I am not a great theologian or orator. I would love to write great literary works that entertain while making the reader contemplate the transcendentals but alas, what I write is more literary fiasco. I...
A Day of Inconvenience to Keep Us From Taking Convenience for Granted
A water main broke on our block one pretty Sunday afternoon. I remember it was a lovely day because I was enjoying a walk and, just before the last turn onto my street, I saw the water gushing out of the curb and pouring down the street. ‘That...
A Gargoyle Gecko Gothic Cathedral and the Discovery of a Dawn of a New Industrial Revolution
After our Gargoyle Gecko, Mabel, joined the family, it became a top priority to make her tank as Gothic as possible. Afterall, you can’t have a breed of gecko named for the...
The Homeschool Discernment: With and Without the Rainbows and Sunshine
A friend was trying to discern whether or not to start homeschooling her children and she asked for my thoughts on my experiences as a...
Memento Mori
“She would have been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life. “ – the Misfit from “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor In Flanner O’Connor’s...
Jesus the Master Electrician
Dr. Tim Gray of the Augustine Institute referred to the Ascension of Our Lord as “completing the circuit.” I thought it an excellent metaphor and it set me to thinking it through...
A Cold, Dead Heart and a Cold-Blooded Icon
I am not an emotional person. In fact, I think I am best described as having a cold, dead heart. A heart of stone would also be apt. I have always been this way. I can’t remember a time when it was not difficult for me to...
Lenten Sacrifices for Those Who Like a Challenge
Lent is coming. It’s a time of prayer, almsgiving and—what it’s probably most known for—fasting. The week preceding Ash Wednesday, a question pops into the heads of...