Something for Sunday Morning

"[W]hen there is nothing to stir your wrath, gather up a store of meekness and kindness, speaking and acting in things great and small as gently as possible. . . [W]e must be filled, heart and soul, with gentleness. . .". St. Francis de Sales

Saturday

Autobiographical Corner Whew, a great weekend ahead of me. Why? I have the house to myself. Marie and The Seven left for a weekend of bird watching. Yes, bird watching. I might read Etienne Gilson, G.K. Chesterton, and (starting shortly) Karl Popper, but, relative to my birding family, I

Friday

It's summer time, which means it's time to get out the gin. I guess gin joints are all the rage these days. New York Magazine has provided a list of these "gin-centric cocktail joints [http://nymag.com/nightlife/wheretodrink/2012/gin-bars/]." Each

Thursday

Letters to Children: Being in Love When your mother and I first started falling in love, she was living in Ypsilanti and I was living down the road in Ann Arbor. After dating for about a year, I found myself calling her every day and making plans to see her

Wednesday

Summer Reading Blessed Summer sits 48 hours away. My reading list has more-or-less come together. For your general edification or amusement, here it is: I enjoy few things more than a writer's random journals. Such prose is particularly well-suited to random Summer days. And it&

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An aquarium in the U.K. claims that it has the world's first vegetarian shark. Either that or they're playing a really mean prank on Nigel the tank cleaner. Fallon Al Gore has a new girlfriend. Apparently, it's getting pretty serious. He's

Tuesday

Failbook Last Thursday, a family member had access to Facebook shares at $43 per share (IPO price: $38). I asked him if he could get me in. He looked into it and said he couldn't. I just shrugged, since I knew virtually nothing about the offering, whether the

Monday

Autobiographical Corner Well, the worse of the busy season is almost behind me: the little girls' soccer leagues are done (I did my final Hell stint Saturday morning, watching back-to-back games in scorching hot field for over two hours; I felt out-of-whack the rest of

Something for Sunday Morning

"You ask how to put away anger: as soon as you feel the slightest resentment, collect yourself gently and seriously, not hastily or impetuously." St. Francis de Sales

Saturday

Fat Tax A new fat tax to induce thinness [http://www.theindychannel.com/health/31079697/detail.html]? It wouldn't surprise me, but all people need to do is get grains and sugar out of their diets, yet at the same time that they're talking about a