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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...
Book Review: Happy Are You Poor
by Thomas Dubay I follow a Franciscan monk who recommended this book. He said he found it particularly challenging. It intrigued me that a man who has given up everything to live a life in service of God found a book on spiritual poverty...
Book Review: Utopia
by Thomas More I wasn’t sure what to expect when reading this book. I’d read it was a satire and then the guy who wrote the introduction to the version I was reading insisted it wasn’t...
17 February 2024 – Why Catholics Can Have Fish on Friday, Why Ice Floats on Water, the Savage Habits of Blue Jays
Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we are frequently looking things up to answer the various questions that arise. For instance, the children found that one of the chickens had laid an egg...
Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday Are a Perfect Couple
Valentine’s Day is on Ash Wednesday this year. At first thought, they seem like an unlikely pairing. Valentine’s Day is a day reminiscent of romance and love. It’s filled with roses, chocolates, lavish dinners, teddy...
10 February 2024 – Bananas, Spring Song by Felix Mendelssohn, the Kingbird, and an Earthworm Dissection
Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we are frequently looking things up to answer the various questions that arise. For instance, the children found that one of the chickens had laid an egg...
What if New Year’s Resolutions Are a Misinterpreted Yearning to Participate in the Penitential Season Known as Lent?
I am happy to say that my area has had a milder than average winter. Most of the highs have been near 40 degrees which has afforded me the luxury of continuing my daily run outside instead of being forced to move it to the monotony of my treadmill in our...
2 February 2024 – Grant’s Real Name, the Definition of ACME and Why Do We Yawn?
Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we are frequently looking things up to answer the various questions that arise. For instance, the children found that one of the chickens had laid an egg...
Book Review: The Drama of Atheist Humanism
by Henri De Lubac Henri de Lubac wrote most of this book while living in Nazi occupied France. It traces the roots of the “New Atheism” back to its beginnings starting as far back as...
27 January 2024 – The Holcombe Flag, the Tongue of the Woodpecker, the Squirrel’s Dirty Secret
Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we are frequently looking things up to answer the various questions that arise. For instance, the children found that one of the chickens had laid an egg...