Monday Miscellany Garden Store Finally, a garden store opens in my town. For three years, I've had to piece together gardening supplies from a variety of sources, all of them somewhat "hit or miss": Local nurseries, Amazon, Walmart, TSC, seed catalogues. No more. About three months

“Sacred Scripture calls all of us to a lofty, perfect holiness. The saints are men and women who say a complete yes to this call, not merely in prayerful sentiments but also in daily decisions and actions.” Thomas Dubay. Related: “Saints have the habit of saying yes, sinners the habit

Miscellany No significance behind this picture. I was just looking for pictures from NYC and found this one (taken at a cemetery in the Bronx) at Wikicommons and thought it pretty cool. * * * * * * * Over at Drudge [http://www.drudgereport.com/] this morning, there are a lot of troubling headlines out of

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

I recently ran across this passage by Fr. Benedict Groeschel: "The account of the Ascension brings us to the edge of physical matter. No scientist would ever be so foolish as to give an explanation of the nature of physical matter, which is one of science's great

The kids' jack-o-lanterns: I discovered last weekend that the iPhone 5 camera has a "panorama" setting. I took these pictures on Sunday: one from my front yard (facing our neighborhood), one from my back deck (showing my dormant garden). And finally, received in an email:

I was flipping through a backlog of magazines on Saturday while watching the excellent slate of sporting events. I ran across all sorts of interesting stuff, like this ranking by Forbes of the best cities to do business [http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2012/06/27/the-best-places-

"The greatness of God lives at the level of ordinary things." Escriva

Miscellany You want to revitalize the Catholic Church? Get rid of the organ, says this op-ed piece [http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2012/10/24/revitalize-catholic-church-let-kill-all-organs/9FpzZPSQzhfd4uUeCJNDbK/story.html] . I don't agree with a chunk of it (goodness knows, we don&