Brews You Can Use
I Need a Drink
The baseball season is only four days old, and I'm already burned out. My son's
appearance at the plate last night would've driven me to a big bottle, but I was
still vomiting from the spectacle. You ever work on
Eric Scheske
Thursday
Stream of Consciousness
Tax Day. Give the federal government the single-finger salute. * * * * * Hoo
hoooo! Happy days are here again. "Better days here? Economic rebound gains
strength [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100414/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/us_economy]."
Ah, but crap: "George Soros
Wednesday
Received in an Email
A Harley biker is riding by the zoo in Washington, DC when he sees a little girl
leaning into the lion's cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the collar of her
jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, under the
Tuesday
Flannery
“Do you really think Flannery O'Connor was a great writer? She's such a Roman
Catholic.” A moron actually asked that moronic question back in 1972 when
O'Connor posthumously received the National Book Award. But she has weathered
the decades and her popularity is
Monday
Little League to Uchitel
Strap on your boots and get ready to run. Little League starts this week, and
I'm the coach. Between today and June 30th: 29 games, practices, and coaches
meetings. And that's just one kid. I have four other kids in four different
Something for Sunday Morning
"In the face of the apparent failure of so many of our attempts, we should
remember that God asks not so much for success as for the humility to begin
again without allowing ourselves to get discouraged and pessimistic. . . ".
Francis Fernandez
Brews You Can Use
Only a Few Are Chosen
A loyal TDE reader and friend from my Gilbert Magazine days sent along the
most-interesting beer story of the young year: Dark Lord beer. Ratebeer.com says
it's the best beer in the world. It's "brewed with hundreds of
Thursday
Stream of Consciousness
I had a nice surprise yesterday morning. The morning Mass was being said for my
father's soul. I dutifully went, planning to join the half-dozen or so regulars
in the pews. I walked into the church during the opening hymn and saw Marie and
Slow Blogging Wednesday
I enjoyed a beautiful evening with my middle boys, playing baseball; with my
five smallest children, riding our bikes to the new car hop and eating ice cream
outside while traffic whizzed by on U.S. 12; shooting baskets; doing some light
work in the garden. With all that going
Tuesday
Autobiographical Corner
A first in my life: I removed a tree stump. Actually, three tree stumps, but two
were rooted together and came out as one.
They'd been in my backyard for 15 years, tacitly taunting me, mocking my
virility. I resolved to take them out. A friend