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Eric Scheske

Brews You Can Use

I'm not terribly enthusiastic about drinking news this week. Not only am I still worn out from the holidays (goodness, it's taking a long time to rebound), but I'm about as inclined to indulge myself right now as an anorexic is inclined to eat

Divorcing Gays

"One of the Benefits of Marriage is Divorce [http://timothyjones.typepad.com/old_world_swine/2008/01/one-of-the-bene.html]." That's the theme of this WaPo article [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22467049/] about the problems of getting divorced if you're gay. The article

Marshmallow Eudemon

Dean Martin sang "Marshmallow World," a tribute to billows of snow. That's what my town looks like now: mounds and mounds of snow [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080101/ap_on_re_us/winter_storm]. Quite beautiful, but tiresome. I cleared the driveway four times

The New Year Eudemon

Ouch, my head! MAKE THAT CAT STOP STOMPING AROUND! Hand me a Gatorade, a bottle of Motrin, a revolver, and one bullet. Naw, I'm just kidding. I'm dog tired, but not at all hungover, with the exception of the general grogginess that comes after six beers

NY Eve Eudemon

This year's Times Square ball: __________ My most-recent at Catholic Exchange: Blessed Are the Flexible [http://www.catholicexchange.com/node/68534]. __________ My apologies, but the holidays are keeping me from full-blown blogging. I'm back in town now, but other commitments are keeping me hoppin'.

Something for Sunday Morning

"Never be downcast. For only one thing is fearful, and that is sin." St. John Chrysostom

Stuff for Saturday Morning

The newest exercise "craze" (that's a little strong, but so be it): open-water swimming [http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/50-ways-to-improve-your-life/2007/12/20/take-a-splash-in-the-hudson-river.html] . My wife will vouch for it. When we vacation up north, she loves to swim in Lake Huron (assuming the

The Friday Eudemon

Now that researchers have concluded that divorce is bad for the environment [https://thedailyeudemon.com/5826/], Theodore Dalrymple humorously asks [http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon2007-12-27td.html]: > One of the interesting questions that this little piece of research poses is whether the environmentalist lobby will now throw itself behind

New Groeschel Book

My son Alex bought me a Benedict Groeschel book for Christmas: Spiritual Passages: The Psychology of Spiritual Development [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0824506286/thedailyeudem-20]. I've only read the first twenty pages, but so far it has all the markings of an Eric Classic, which I

Stephen and Christmas

When I was a kid, I was always depressed Christmas night and the day after, with my spirits gradually lightening as the new year approached. I don't get depressed anymore, not at all. It's odd, though: I intensely look forward to Christmas for a month, then