Pater Familias

"Men will take up arms and even sacrifice their lives for the sake of this love….when harmony prevails, the children are raised well, the household is kept in order, and neighbors, friends, and relatives praise the result. Great benefits, both of families and states, are thus produced. When it is otherwise, however, everything is thrown into confusion and turned upside-down.” --St. John Chrysostom

Monday, September 14, 2026

Meat, Sex, and the Rosary

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  *Note: This is not clickbait and hopefully not scandalous to pious ears and eyes. Just something I've been thinking about. So read on ...
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Saturday, August 22, 2026

A Man's Most Attractive Trait

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Jesus Christ loved men. And men were attracted to Jesus Christ.  But why?  What was it about the man, Jesus the Nazarene, that drew men to h...
Sunday, August 16, 2026

The Halo: Seat of Wisdom

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Years ago, when I was acquainted with a New Age friend and periodically worked in her crystal shop to pay off a debt, I was introduced to th...
Friday, August 7, 2026

The Problem With "Technology"

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I'm currently reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig. I may have read it in my twenties but I honestly don...
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Tuesday, August 4, 2026

You Have To Choose

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It is a remarkable thing that some of the weightiest choices we make in our lives are undertaken with the lightest of reasoning.  We marry b...
Thursday, July 30, 2026

A Tree By Its Fruit

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We moved into our home in 2015. I planted an Shinseiki Asian Pear tree in our quarter-acre backyard the following Spring. I pruned the limbs...
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Monday, July 27, 2026

Time Is Slipping Through My Fingers Like Sand

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  I did not expect to struggle so much as a father with my kids getting older. Lamentably, my memory is very poor and I only have little sni...
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Saturday, July 25, 2026

Team We

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  Team  Me  We For our sixteenth wedding anniversary, my wife got me a card from the Dollar Store. That sounds callous and pathetic; however...
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Monday, May 13, 2024

Take Good Care Now [la fin]

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Hi everyone, I think I've reached the point where it's time to retire.  It's not that I don't enjoy writing (I do), and it...
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Sunday, May 12, 2024

More Thoughts On Friendship, From the Isle of Inisherin

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  Last night I got around to watching the critically acclaimed dark comedy  The Banshees of Inisherin  (2022) with Colin Farrell and Brenda...
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I am a happily married 46 year old Catholic father of three. I am not a professional Catholic. I am a reluctant author. I am just an ordinary guy trying to get his family to Heaven, and leaving some breadcrumbs along the way. "I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone." --St. Francis of Assisi
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