Tips and strategies for optimizing your state in life.
Biblically speaking, if anyone had the right to resent playing “second fiddle” to anyone, particularly a sibling, it was Andreas bar Yochannan, better …
This morning my wife and I started discussing the state of our society. You don’t need me to tell you that America is in dire straits. I could list all…
Personal Notes This Sunday's first reading (in the Ordinary Form) from the Book of Proverbs is often used at weddings. My wife and I did not use it at…
The witch-hunt continues. Roy Moore, the GOP nominee running for senator in Alabama, is contending with allegations of sexual abuse made decades ago…
The Problem With Dating The dating, and by extension marriage, apocalypse is finally upon us (and not just because of Tinder). Today’s men and women…
I'm reading a great book by Dr. Jonathan Gottschall titled The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch. It's about an English …
People today don’t read. If you recommend a book, they will ignore you. If you write them a letter or long email, they will skim it poorly or ignore it…
Nearly ten months ago, my wife and I gave up television for good. By most standards, we did not necessarily have an unhealthy addiction to televisio…
I recently became the first time owner of a handgun. And, if you don’t know, I live in California so getting to the point of purchase can be a quest he…
Homer's Greek epic the Iliad is a catechism on the merits and dangers of θυμός (thumos). Thumos is the breath of the warrior. It is the emboldened spir…