Eric Scheske

Best site I found this week: Bum Wine [http://www.bumwine.com/]. Thunderbird, Mad Dog. Enlightening and entertaining stuff. Sample: Night Train is all business when it pulls into the station. All aboard to nowhere - woo wooo! The night train runs only one route: sober to stupid with no roundtrip

Save on pumpkins [http://www.coasttocoastam.com/timages/page/pumpkin_sim.html]. __________ What are people wearing this year for Halloween? Forbes breaks it down: Palin, Obama, McCain, Joe the Plumber, Speedo Phelps [http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/106037/Who-Profits-From-Halloween?] . __________ Also from Forbes: How to treat

Adulterer behind me, adulterer in front of me. Both freshly unrepentant. All three of us at Mass to celebrate First Communion with our sons. My distaste for American Catholicism spiked at that Mass, but it started long before, back before my conversion in 1991, when I was a Lutheran enamored

"If we indulge ourselves in vain, frivolous, or sinful speculations, our minds become incapable of choosing what is most proper for mortifying our disorderly affections." Lawrence Scupoli

Relief is at hand. My son's last marching band performance was eight days ago, my daughter's last home volleyball game five days ago, my two sons' last football games today. After this, I have a few weeks of reprieve before other activities kick in . . . and

Making the best out of bad situations: A team of researchers at Rice University in Houston is working to create a beer that could fight cancer and heart disease. Taylor Stevenson, a member of the six-student research team and a junior at Rice, said the team is using genetic

"It is vain and useless to conceive either grief or joy for future things, which perhaps shall never come to pass. But it is in human nature to be deluded with such imaginations." The Imitation of Christ, Book 3, Chp. 30. Why is it in our nature to