Eric Scheske

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Holidays

Friday

Drunken Waiting Advent starts in two days or, depending on your Semitic predilections, tomorrow evening. Advent is a season of peaceful waiting, meditation, penance . . . and drinking. As every traditionalist Christian realizes, our culture has kicked the holiness of Advent in the teeth by creating one large holiday season from Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day

“Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.” Samuel Johnson “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” G.K. Chesterton “Gratitude is characteristic only of the humble. The egotistic are so

Monday

Helladay Parade There's a small city called "Battle Creek" about 50 minutes from my house. It's the home of Kellogg and Post, making it the "Cereal Capital of the World." It has about 60,000 people and puts together a lot of

Friday

BYCU Should I even do a BYCU during Advent? If you're a typical American and jumping the celebratory gun, you're probably confronted with drinking opportunities throughout the week. And if you're properly awaiting the birth of Our Savior with quiet expectation and patience, you&

Monday

Happy Halloween If you want to see the difference between adults and children, look no further than Halloween. For little kids, Halloween is the biggest holiday of the year after Christmas. When kids get older, Halloween fades in importance. My first child was old enough to enjoy Halloween when I

Wednesday

The Petty Souled In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle wrote about the megalopsychos, a term that Nassim Taleb translates as "the great-souled," a condition that excludes all pettiness. What's the opposite of the megalopsychos? I don't know, but it's on display in Seattle

Happy St. Patrick's Day

As always on March 17th, I present one of my favorite GKC verses: For the great Gaels of Ireland Are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, And all their songs are sad.

BYCU

New Years Edition It's the last day of the year. 2010 was far better than 2009, and for that I'm grateful. I plan to celebrate the end of the year with friends and family at the local drinking club this afternoon, while watching bowl games. I

Thursday

Gearing Back Up I have returned from my trip to the in-laws in Detroit, and now the Christmas festivities are over, except for the 12 days of Christmas presents that we give the kids. We give each kid a small present every day until the Epiphany, at which time we

Christmas Eve

A few Christmas Eve words of wisdom: “For while all things were in quiet silence and the night was in the midst of her course, thy almighty word leapt down from heaven from thy royal throne.” Book of Wisdom. “[This] passage, brimming with the mystery of the Incarnation, is wonderfully