Holy Reenactors

I’m enjoying Bright Monday at home, as I’ve done for as many years as I’ve been able to. How jarring it would be to drop back into the routine workday world after experiencing the transcendent joy of the Great Feast.
All the elements that contribute to making Orthodox worship so powerful are present with particular [...]

Due to Global Warming, maybe?

Friday, April 25th. When I got up to walk the dog at 5:30AM, it was 42 degrees, and I expected the last little patches of snow in our yard to be gone by evening. By 9AM the temperature had dropped to 34 degrees and it had begun to snow. Six [...]

Our governor’s new baby- Profiles in Courage (UPDATED)

(Photo courtesy of KTUU Channel 2, from the Anchorage Daily News article here).
World, meet Trig Paxson Van Palin. Trig, meet the world.
Governor Sarah Palin went into labor about a month early while at a national Governors’ conference in Texas, necessitating a hasty return to Alaska , but mother and child are reportedly doing well. He [...]

It’s not fairrrr! Call a “Wah”mbulance!

Isn’t this priceless? A picture truly worth a thousand words… neatly sums up all the grievance-mongering, entitlement mentality, victim status clamoring, and now, the reaction to last nights debate.
[Image source: MichelleMalkin.com]
These so-called Presidential primary campaign “debates” have been so predictably sanitized and uninformative that I’ve never wasted my time watching them. Given the reports from [...]

Pope Benedict and the crisis of the West

Another Papal visit to the U.S., and of course I have nothing to comment on about it. The Washington Times has what looks like a good “Special Edition” web site to track all things related to his visit, here.
National Review Online also has many excellent articles; naturally, if you are yourself Catholic you already [...]

What greeted me this morning- UPDATE #2

Honestly… this morning. And honestly, it IS getting, ah- tedious- to be scrapping the ice off the windshield in mid-April.
However, when we drove home from work this afternoon the difference was amazing. Virtually all of it had melted from the highway and main streets, so that you could scarcely believe that it was [...]

Silence and stillness.

April 15th, “Tax Day”, and here in Anchorage it has been pouring down snow for over six hours. Wet, heavy snow, and just when we were sure winter had already made it’s last “hurrah!”. Looks more like it’s last “ha-ha!”.
This past weekend I attended the annual Lenten retreat for the men in our church. We [...]

Scotsmen don’t “get” Googlegangers.

I’m sorry, but this story is pathetic. Exhibit #(?) in the case of modern Americans berift of meaning and significance in their lives. Feeling a “bond” with someone simply because you share the same name? Truly sad.
Is it because I’m of Scottish heritage that I don’t get it? Several years back I was active in [...]

Obama Endorses Amazon Deforestation!

What a delightful headline! And no, it isn’t Karl Rove or the “Republican smear machine”, either. Nobody I know ever accused Time magazine of being a White House mouthpiece… be sure to follow the link in the article above, or go directly to it here.
“Brazil just announced that deforestation is on track to double this [...]

Newest Medal of Honor recipient

Petty Officer Second Class (SEAL) Michael Anthony Monsoor, in a ceremony in the East Room of the White House this afternoon.  A full description of his life and achievements, the citations for bravery, and the many acts of intrepid and selfless courage, and the action for which he earned the Medal of Honor, posthumously, can [...]