For reasons not worth getting into, there are times when my entire body is just one big ball of pain, where every inch of me aches. Usually it has to do with an incoming storm, or a weather system that is passing nearby. It happened tonight. We had a beautifully warm day, and I had no idea what the ...

He sat down opposite the treasury and observed how the crowd put money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums. A poor widow also came and put in two small coins worth a few cents. Calling his disciples to himself, he said to them, “Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more...

Actually, the Linkfest will be coming up, but I had to share Chris Muir’s great cartoon, (H/T Amused Cynic): Oh, come on, laugh! If you’re not allowed to laugh at your president, then you’re already not free! Check back for lots of links! Today will be a “day of continual lin...

The severe ice storm that has crippled parts of the midwest and devastated Kentucky is getting a little more attention from the press than it has since last Tuesday, when the storm hit. This is the Monday after. Time Magazine writes a professional-sounding piece that is completely devoid of emotion,...

Not too much hate-mail, lately, which is a nice change. Someone from the left actually wrote that she appreciated how “fair” I was to Michelle Obama on her clothes. Well, thank you, I try to be fair. No one can be, all the time, but I would hope that that correspondent has been at least ...

Have you ever read something and then said, “damn, I wish I’d written that? I do it frequently, but especially today with this piece, especially, by the renowned skeptic, Vanderleun: Theirs was the Age of Myth; a world where night was not dimmed by the web of lights that now obscures the...

I went to mass alone this morning - my hubby had to be somewhere else - and after mass I was just sitting in my pew, trying to decide if I was being called to get anointed, because the month-long stiff neck, the two-week long headache and the coughing have been wearing me down. The priest, a pal, wa...

The good thing about insomnia: in the wee small hours, you get caught up on your blogging and finally have time to link to all those things you’ve been meaning to. Got some email answered, too. Please forgive me if I have not responded; I try, but lately there is so much of it, that some does ...

From time to time I find similar questions or comments filling the email box and it seems like a cue to address them more broadly. Q: Why is your email so hard to find? A: An email asking me why my email is hard to find reminds me a little of Yogi Berra asking, “how can that guy keep striking ...