Return from Nashville Marie and I took the three little kids to Nashville for their spring break trip. Alex and Abbie were able to get days off work and joined us, giving us a clear super-majority (7 out of 9 . . . ain't bad). We got back yesterday. Needless to

"With respect to self-talk, I might be at the golf course having the best game of my life and then suddenly find myself triple-bogeying the last five holes. How does this happen? Our unconscious belief about who we are and what we are capable of sets parameters for our

Random excerpts from Dorothy Day's diary: There is a Russian saying that if a man plants 3 trees in his life he will never go to hell. My love of peace and quiet inclines me always to want to do nothing. I have his same faults so we

You'd have to be a full-on idiot to accept any of this. I'm sure it's kinda fun, to sit around and figure out what you are, kinda like the way people analyze their personality traits, but geesh, to endow this stuff with more credibility

Miscellaneous Rambling Happy Easter Monday. Day two of 50 days. Plenty of time to contemplate the Mystery. Somewhere, Russell Kirk wrote a great summary of the history of the Shroud of Turin, but the heck if I can find it now. Nifty article: 10 Social Media Networks to Use Instead

"Kirk first encountered the Shroud while offhandedly visiting the Cathedral of San Giovanni Battista in Torino, Italy, in 1957 when he attended a Mont Pelerin Society conference. Here, he claimed, he encountered the face of God. “The face was wondrously distinct, almost accurate as a plaster death mask: a

Lew Rockwell has run two Christocentric pieces these past two days: Does The Celestial-Geophysical-Historical Time Clock Provide Evidence For An Easter Crucifixion & Resurrection? [https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/03/bill-sardi/does-the-celestial-geophysical-historical-time-clock-provide-evidence-for-an-easter-crucifixion-resurrection/] What is the connection between personal freedom and rising from the dead? [https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/03/

Miscellany A lot of people brought gifts to Marie's birthday party. I was impressed by the assortment of unusual, small gifts that she received. There were plenty of wine bottles (my standard present) and gift certificates, which are always cool, but also lottery tickets (she won $10), decorative

Miscellaneous Rambling The saddest story of the week: "The police officer who died after taking the place of a hostage in France was a practising Catholic who had 'experienced a genuine conversion' around 2008." Link [http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2018/03/25/police-officer-who-swapped-places-with-hostage-was-a-practising-catholic/#.WrgzL2oWvj1.