The Thrill of Competition Might be Vitamins for the Left Hemisphere of Your Brains
And in this modern age, you never need to nourish your left hemisphere
Eric Scheske
Easter
"When the disciples saw the risen Christ, they beheld him as a reality in the world, though no longer of it, respecting the order of the world, but Lord of its laws. To behold such reality was different and more than to see a tree or watch a man
Good Friday
The annual assortment of quotes
Rodriguez and Maundy Thursday
From the conclusion
The Everyday Problem That is the Left Hemisphere
The left hemisphere of your brain is a miserable little tyrant, a penny-ante dictator strutting around in the gray matter.
Don’t believe me? Look at the everyday modern life that the left hemisphere has given us. It’s one big prick-fest, a carnival of impatience and irritation where every
A Gardening Piece at The University Bookman
My dad received The University Bookman while I was growing up, so I was especially pleased to see one of my pieces appear here today.
The Stud that Was H.L. Mencken
Every so often, I plunge headlong into a Mencken spree, a vice I’ve nursed since the early 1990s when I first stumbled into Ann Arbor’s Dawn Treader Bookstore and smelled those old books (that odd but pleasing scent, I’m told, comes from vanilla releasing from the aging
The Battle of the Hemispheres
So, fear’s the new punk squatting in the pantheon of mortal sins.
That oozing narcissism, born from the left hemisphere’s tyrannical stranglehold on our skulls, lights up our amygdalas like a cheap firecracker every time our little empire of self gets a scratch. It’s a meltdown, a
Why Weak Fools Can Dominate
Exploring the fool in Christ and the fool in Antichrist. Ivan the Terrible v. Nicholas of Pskov. Nietzsche v. Everyone
Four Reformers
I had a chance last month to booze it up at Sloppy Joe’s in Key West, but by the time I came across it, I’d already guzzled enough gin to fill a Prohibition-era bathtub, so I skipped it.
Bad on me. Sloppy Joe’s was Hemingway’s haunt