July 5, 2017“I cannot separate it [watching the world go by] from the porch where it occurs. The action and the space…
June 29, 2017In a folder of papers at my desk there are reminders of things to do sometime, although they aren’t urgent.…
June 23, 2017“It is a pleasure to carry out one’s duties of a citizen and to receive in return a receipt or…
June 21, 2017Heaven favored me with three successive clement weekends.- June 19, 2017Since posting "A Place Called Home" we have learned of the passing of Otto Warmbier. Just as home is the…
June 18, 2017Donald Trump has been called many things in the press in the first six months of his presidency, yet the…
June 16, 2017Grand Rapids, MI Father’s Day is around the corner. I had to look up the term to see if it…- June 12, 2017Chuck Marohn over at Strong Towns does some interesting podcasts, but none more so than a recent one with FPR…
May 24, 2017Peter Augustine Lawler passed away on Tuesday, leaving a significant void not only in the lives of his friends, family,…
May 24, 2017So long as gravity obtains, sawing off the branch you’re sitting on is never a good idea.
May 1, 2017New Directions for Catholic Social and Political Research: Humanity vs. Hyper-Modernity, Guido Preparata, (ed.) Palgrave MacMillan, 319 pages The future…- April 22, 2017Bruce Langhorne, best known as the inspiration for Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" but best loved (by me, anyway) for…
