Sunday

I think this writer at Forbes is right: "[B]ecause busyness has become a status symbol–a sign that you are in demand and thus important–it's easy to default to the word “busy” to describe your life. When we tell people that we are busy, in

Great, Just Freakin' Great

The "Catholic" Pelosi: > Today in 2014: Nancy Pelosi Receives Planned Parenthood's Top Margaret Sanger Award http://t.co/Y7Vfnsc7tW pic.twitter.com/4ZZbeC2DO0 [http://t.co/4ZZbeC2DO0] > — LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) February 1, 2015 [https://twitter.com/LifeNewsHQ/status/561705535922536448]

Saturday

Triggered Memory You ever hear something that triggers a memory from early childhood? That happened to me this morning while reading "Why I Hate the Super Bowl [http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/01/why_i_hate_the_super_bowl.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter] ."

Friday

BYCU Kinda interesting: Hops-growing workshop for Ohio growers [http://oardc.osu.edu/7388/Hops-Production-Workshop-is-Feb-13.htm]. I've wondered about the economics of hops growing. It looks pretty good: "Ohio State researchers estimate that within the first year growers can expect dry hops

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Wikipedia founder, Hayek dude [http://i.imgur.com/T7yMjo3.jpg].

Thursday

I made my first planting of 2015 last weekend: three trays of microgreens. It felt good to get back in the gardening saddle and take my mind away from office concerns for awhile. * * * * * * * I actually do a fair amount of garden stuff during the dead of winter. I grow sprouts

GKC Wednesday

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a

Tuesday

Miscellaneous Rambling Yes, two straight days of "Miscellaneous Rambling." Though perhaps I should've ran this one as "Autobiographical Reflections" . . . * * * * * * * When I first read Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture, I was sold on Pieper's argument: The modern world is

On the Eighth Day

Back in the 1990s, I bought a lot of books from Eighth Day Books. I've always wanted to take a pilgimmage to that famed Wichita bookstore. In the meantime, I'll just enjoy Rod Dreher's description that I found last weekend: > I was reminded

Monday

Miscellaneous Rambling My three oldest children and brother urged me to watch "Breaking Bad." They all love it. I've dedicated almost all of my TV-watching time to it over the past ten days and have squeezed in the first three episodes. I find it disagreeable.