On Death and Meaning

A very timely post from Fr. Stephen at “Glory to God for All Things”:
“The Nature of Things and our Salvation” 

My father’s death, and, holiday depression

I haven’t written yet about the blessing Lesa and I have had of enjoying the visit of my two daughters for Christmas. Elizabeth noted that it was the first time the three of us (herself, her sister and I) had been together for Christmas since she was one year old. Lesa has been [...]

Solstice in Alaska

(Anchorage) - Here it is… nothing but longer days from here to June!
Sunrise- 10:14AM Sunset- 3:41PM Total- 5 hrs 27 mins (Corrected!)
But that’s not taking into account the local mountains. Where we live in Eagle River [...]

“Climate change” vs. “Global Warming”

What’s the difference? This is. Read it, look over the list of the names of the signatories, then answer these questions:
1. Do these sound like third-tier scientists and “deniers”?
2. How likely is it that all of them are “paid-off apologists” for the oil industry?
3. Which major U.S. news media [...]

Re-reconsidering Rudy (and ‘Huck’, and Mitt)

Back in October, following my disillusionment with Fred Thompson’s listless and underwhelming campaign, I wrote a post titled “Reconsidering Rudy“. Columnist John Hawkins, writing at Townhall.com, made some very good cautionary points about Rudy that argue for “re-reconsidering” him; see Rudy Guliani Would Be Our Bill Clinton.
And along the same lines, I have to [...]

Pope Benedict is a bigoted specie-ist!

[Sarcasm Alert!] In remarks reported by the Daily Mail (UK), Pope Benedict XVI clearly expressed his view that a minor, arbitrary variation in the genetic sequencing of a few chromosomes ought to give the human race a privileged position above all other species. Can you believe it? The welfare of polar bears [...]

Militant atheism takes up the gun.

No doubt the wanna-be respectable atheists, the intellectually pretentious atheists, will object to any suggestion that they have any causal or contributory link to the Colorado killer. No doubt. And to be honest, I have not heard of any direct incitements to violence in any of the several recently popular pro-atheism books. But, considering such [...]

The World vs. Christmas

I’m pretty confident that none of these observations and comments are original, but writing purely original content was never the purpose of this blog- if such a thing is even possible, it sounds much too tiring and would have too little payoff. Just sharing with family, friends, and the random visitor some thoughts about things [...]

Happy St. Nicholas Day!

Not one of the major feasts of the Church, but certainly THE feast of the Advent season.  The songs of Vespers last night revealed more of the insider “family” knowledge of who the real St. Nicholas was, and the children always love to run downstairs afterwards to find the foil-wrapped chocolate “coins” in their shoes, [...]

Hello again!

Haven’t written for awhile- trying to shake a head cold, and fit in a birthday celebration for Lesa Saturday evening. Had a really nice time; started with a gourmet dinner at Orso’s, one of Anchorage’s best fine dining establishments, followed by a performance at the Atwood Concert Hall- David Finkel and wife Wu Han, [...]