Miscellaneous Rambling I really enjoy vegetable gardening, but I have a hard time justifying it if I'm merely pulling produce at the time that I can find cheap fresh-cut produce throughout my rural area at a dozen frontyard stands: 25 cents a cucumber, 20 cents a tomato,

So I get back from Traverse City late yesterday afternoon, go to Mass, get dinner, and doze off on the family room floor. A local high school game of assassin wakes me at around 11:00, with a bunch of excited teenage kids coming through the house. A friend, in

I've long been jealous of whiskey drinkers and their dedicated bars. It turns out there are a growing number of rum bars. This article highlights some of the nicer ones [http://www.liquor.com/articles/rum-bars-beyond-tiki/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5731399a04d3010ab07f4f30&

"The political and journalistic world can boast of very few heroes who compare with Father Damien of Molokai. The Catholic Church, on the contrary, counts by the thousands those who after the example of Fr. Damien have devoted themselves to the victims of leprosy. It is worthwhile to look

There's something about this sketch I really like: > #drawing [https://twitter.com/hashtag/drawing?src=hash] #pencil [https://twitter.com/hashtag/pencil?src=hash] #ink [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ink?src=hash] pic.twitter.com/BK7cKI9rmt [https://t.co/BK7cKI9rmt] > — Delineatas Ù† (@Delineatas) May 3, 2016

Miscellaneous Rambling I've begun listening to Al Kresta a lot. I catch him when I can on my car, but I spend very little time commuting (during these warm months, I ride my bike more often than not). He has a nice demeanor and features interesting guests. Last

Miscellaneous Rambling Jack and Michael went to prom Saturday night. I went to watch the "Grand March," a community event where the kids walk through the gym while the adults and younger siblings clap. Two gay dudes came out together. That sucked. But of course a handful of

> Weekly Top Stories: Blood-red Trevi fountain a wake-up call on Christian persecution https://t.co/zimyz6ao9h pic.twitter.com/Udcp1GL3Ni [https://t.co/Udcp1GL3Ni] > — The Pilot (@TheBostonPilot) May 7, 2016 [https://twitter.com/TheBostonPilot/status/728861984465133568]

It's Derby Day [http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/horseracing/2016/05/05/kentucky-derby-horses-20-field-inside-info/83969774/] ! Far out. Of course, I haven't watched the event in over ten years, but I like it: my brother and I went to the local

This blog post combines history, drinking, and entrepreneurship [http://sanduskyhistory.blogspot.com/2016/04/cask-villa-in-vermilion.html]. Possibly the most enjoyable idiosyncratic thing I've seen on the web all year. > During the 1920s, William J. O'Neill purchased over twenty wine casks from a