Eric Scheske

The editor of an anthology of garden writing once wrote something like, "A man with a garden is a peaceful man." I agree with that. Of course, I occasionally joke that I'm "the swearing gardener." The contrasting juxtaposition--peace, then intense frustration at things

Well, it looks like my web provider and I might be heading to court. I wouldn't be surprised if they crash my site altogether. If they do, please go here. It'll be my new spot: http://thecatholiceudemon.blogspot.com/

Very little blogging today. My web provider has again let me down. Things, technologically-speaking, are getting very bad for TDE. Last week, my web provider inadvertently blocked my access to TDE from my house (note: they deny it; I have no way to prove otherwise), then yesterday, they took

Miscellany Whew, that was some brutal weather last weekend. I woke up Saturday morning to snow on the ground. It appears my early garden weathered it alright. Things are now looking up. With any luck, I'll start moving my container tomatoes and peppers outside later this week. It&

"In our work, as in other aspects of ordinary life such as in family and social commerce, in periods of rest and leisure . . . we always have this choice--carelessness and shoddiness that impoverish the soul, or the little work of art offered up to God as the expression of

Skeptical Saturday I'm enjoying my new-found skepticism about everything the media tells us. I notice things that previously escaped my attention. At 7:30 yesterday morning, the news reported that one of the Boston Marathon bombers had been killed in a shoot-out with police and a

BYCU The garden is looking very good. It's been a frustrating year so far and a lot of work, but it's already meeting my family's spinach needs. It should, if the weather even halfway cooperates, shortly be meeting the family's lettuce and

Enormous technical difficulties at TDE. They've been occurring all month. We thought we had them straightened out yesterday, but then a new crop arose. We'll see where things go. For today, just this nifty chart I stumbled across last weekend [http://ilovecharts.tumblr.com/post/27489527791/

St. Benedict Joseph Labre's Feast Day today [http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/saint.aspx?id=1356]. The poor man's St. Francis of Assisi.

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a