Category: Personal

Someone who recently visited my blog accessed an old post from 2006 about Eros and Agape, and when I looked back at what I argued, I realized it is an important battleground in the Church and the world today and…

We bought our house back in 1986, on almost .7 acres in the historic community of Oella, Maryland. Our house started out as a 2-room cabin in the 1860s. Around 1910, they added a second floor and front L, sitting…

Vox Day’s lead post today discussed the rise in Boomer Rage and its potential causes. (https://voxday.net/2025/10/08/rage-against-the-mortality/). As the title suggests, mortality is an unavoidable marker, and when people approach the end of their lives, they often become less relevant to…

I have been using ChatGPT for a while as an editor, which is really nice because it never gets tired. I can go over the same chapter ten times in a row, making adjustments, and it doesn’t care. Tonight I…

My best friend John died Sunday night just before midnight. His family asked me to create a photo presentation of his life. I was able to accomplish that using a PowerPoint presentation with 101 photos from his life. The presentation…

Late last night my best friend John went peacefully home to be with the Lord after losing his battle against pancreatic cancer. He was surrounded by all of his large, immediate family and he was accompanied on his journey by…

Back in 2005, I wrote a post about the abandonment of Terri Shiavo, prompted by a column by Mark Steyn. I was fixing a couple of broken links on the post and I thought it deserved fresh light. So, here…

I was reading a review of Josef Pieper’s Faith, Hope, Love on Amazon when the commentor (Lawrence J. King) said something that struck a deep nerve and sent a shudder through my being (I am not joking). He said: I used to…

One of the niceties that separates us from our historical ancestors is our use of condiments on our food. We have many possibilities to spice up our daily fare from the simple salt and pepper to the common mayonnaise, mustard,…

When you mention the word fasting the first thing that usually comes to mind is absence of food, but fasting can literally be from anything, including by way of example: Televisions Movies Video games Reading Blogging Work Entertainment in general…