Something for Sunday Morning
"The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any
other; it is a perpetual exercise of mortification
[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10578b.htm]."
St. Francis de Sales
Family
More Pet Children
The New York Times says Genoa is dying for lack of children
[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/world/europe/22genoa.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin]
. This quote recalls a frequent theme of this blog:
> In the Fiumara Mall, the rare mother pushing a
Marriage Encounter
Here's one of the most ironic puzzles of my adult life: Marriage Encounter
Weekends [http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=95058]. Never has
anything sounded so repugnant to me, yet widely endorsed by many people I
respect. Why does it sound repugnant?
*If my wife and
Macca and Mucca
The Paul McCartney divorce is getting into full swing. Go here
[http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006360565,00.html] for all the details.
Entertaining stuff, especially when you learn that the wife is a former porn
actress ("You'd expect so much more from a person
Pictures
Trip to Milwaukee: Daughter Abbie (11) and me at last Saturday's wedding. Don't
freak out. She didn't drink too many.
The seven and me in Cleveland.
The faces have been shadowed out to protect our identity. Cleveland has a
venerable mob history.
Max Turns 3
My fourth boy (sixth child overall) turns three today. He's no longer silent
[https://thedailyeudemon.com/1870/], though he's still a coy child who prefers smiling to
talking, but he often does both. Two more birthdays (Abbie, turning twelve, and
Michael, turning eight) take place in
Of Course It's Boring
Interesting piece by Helen Kirwan-Taylor, a mother/writer who says her children
bore her. The later article makes a few decent points (I, too, don't know why
"good" parents have to attend every blasted sporting, band, or artistic event;
moreover, I detest it when parents try
The Wednesday Eudemon
A packed midweek. It started last night, when I took three of my older kids to
Pirates of the Caribbean 2. It wasn't good. The plot didn't hold together nearly
as well as the first one (which had an excellent plot and story lines that hung
More on Commodity Children
You remember B16's words about merely tolerating children [https://thedailyeudemon.com/4469/]?
Well, the Times Online today ran an op-ed on the same subject
[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,24391-2168664,00.html]. It might be the
best opinion piece I've read all year. Perhaps
Barefoot and Pregnant and (Not) Broke
> A full-time stay-at-home mother would earn $134,121 a year if paid for all her
work, an amount similar to a top U.S. ad executive, a marketing director or a
judge, according to a study released Wednesday.
This type of study isn't new. Last year, the