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

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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Thursday, May 9, 2024

The Means and Ends of the Mass

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Note: I have submitted this piece to various publications, some of which I'm still waiting to hear back from. In the event it is publish...
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Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Will & Grace...and the SSPX

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  I was just starting college when the NBC sitcom Will and Grace premiered in 1998. (Then) U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was quoted as sayi...
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Saturday, May 4, 2024

By Any Means Necessary

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 The other night I had a couple guys over for beers on the patio--one guy I knew fairly well, the other guy was friends with my friend, and ...
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Thursday, May 2, 2024

Theological Parsimony

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   St. Augustine, the wisdom-loving brilliant and talented rhetorician, was put off by the Christian scriptures initially after reading Cice...
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Prediction: Podcasts Will Go The Way of MySpace

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I half-heartedly started the Rogan/Tucker Carlson interview (conversation? Idk what you call it these days) during a lull in my day. About ...
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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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