Eric Scheske

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Brews You Can Use

One of the best things about growing older: No winter blues. I'll miss the holidays, but I'm thoroughly ready to settle back to normalcy and to take a long winter nap. A handful of these Otters might be perfect. "The new special release is a

Happy New Year

I celebrate the New Year in my regular fashion: Meet at the drinking club with friends and family at 2:30 to watch bowl games and drink beer. Afterward, I go home and meet the glare of my wife, who's been racked with eleven children (my seven and

Tuesday Miscellany

Alright, I'll vomit now: "The French perfumer Etat Libre d'Orange introduced a product this year called SÃ©crÃ©tions Magnifiques that's supposed to smell like a mix of blood, sweat and semen," Herz said. "And the fashion designer Tom Ford has

0-16 Monday

Well, my Lions did it: 0-16. Unbelievable. The league is set up for parity, but the Lions have managed to be head-and-shoulders worse than anyone else in history (we can debate whether the 0-14 Buccaneers were worst, but surely we have better things to do . . . don't we?) But

Something for Sunday Morning

"If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times." St. Augustine (Note: I saw this on the Internet; I haven't verified it.)

Post-25th Miscellany

People sometimes ask, "What's it like to prepare Christmas for seven children?" My response: Ask my wife. I just have to pay for it all, which is a huge task of course, but it's spread over the course of twelve months, whereas my wife&

Christmas Eve

“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 expressive of the infinite stillness that

Something for the Eve of Christmas Eve

Advent is a penitential season. It doesn't get nearly the respect Lent does in this regard, but I try to do something. This year, I resolved to read all the daily entries in Francis Fernandez' meditation series, In Conversation with God. It didn't go well.

Odd Sunday

A handful of unusual small things occurred Sunday. First, the temperature dropped to -8. I'm not sure I've seen the thermometer that low my entire adult life. Wind chill was at least -25 (it was -20 in the afternoon, when the temperature was 0). Of course,

Something for Sunday Morning

If you have a God you understand, you have erected an idol. Benedict Groeschel, 12/13/2008 Podcast from Sunday Night Live (not a precise quote, but I got it very close).