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Eric Scheske

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You watch Mad Men? Boardwalk Empire? If so, you've probably seen a lot of artists at work. Their art? The cocktail. I attended a private cocktail instruction last night at Big Cedar Distillery [http://www.incentivevodka.com/The-Vodka.html]. The instructor, Angie, is a mixologist. She also

Wednesday

Catholic Blog Surfing Well, I completely neglected the anniversary of the death of G.K. Chesterton. It was yesterday. Fortunately, the good folks at Supremacy and Survival didn't forget [http://supremacyandsurvival.blogspot.com/2011/06/gk-chesterton-rip.html] . It fittingly asks the question, "Will GKC be

Tuesday

Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly My colleague: The baddest lawyer in New Jersey. No witness means no conviction. He's facing life in prison. . . . more>> [http://nymag.com/news/features/paul-bergrin-2011-6/] Comic books were hot. Smokin' hot. And then the bottom fell out.

Monday

Frugal Youth I've noticed something new among teens: frugality. For their prom dinner, for instance, the girls were excited that a parent agreed to host the dinner. Every family pitched in a dish for six couples, and the kids had a great dinner without spending $100 per couple

Something for Sunday Morning

The recollection of an injury is . . . a rusty arrow and poison for the soul. St. Francis of Paola

Friday

Football to Misdemeanors: BYCU You wanna spend $750 on a beer? Yeah, me neither (in the words of Pat Dailey, "I've got to be drunk to do that"). But if you're so inclined or so stupid or so drunk, you might want to try

Thursday

Bullets The Seven Sisters [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainline_Protestant#Denominations]? It rings a bell, but I'm not sure I've heard of the mainline Protestant churches referred to that way. The Sisters are: American Baptists, Disciples of Christ, Congregationalists / United Church of Christ, Episcopalians, Lutherans,

Wednesday

From the Notebooks What can a man like DH Lawrence tell us about the afterlife? He may have intuited quite a bit, even if he didn't understand it himself. In his excellent little book, Studies in Classic American Literature, Lawrence wrote: > The central law of all organic

Tuesday

Time Management. Or, Increasing Self-Awareness I see friends take long lunches, run personal errands during work hours, drop by their houses in the middle of the afternoon, chat with colleagues, call on the phone and talk for 30 minutes with no apparent qualms. It got me thinking: How much

Monday

Graduation Day Alex graduated from high school yesterday. I'm not sure I've ever felt such mellow sadness. I wasn't crying or anything like that. But I was sad, no doubt about it, and if I could turn the clock back and give him another