Oops, it’s been nearly a month since my previous gardener’s notebook entry. So what’s happened since then? Well, I’ve nearly killed off all my plants and the rest are in the ground. But let me back up some. The experts say... [Continue Reading]
Okay, so I meant to update my gardener’s journal more often than I did. On the other hand, nothing’s in the ground yet so I’m not too upset with myself. Here’s what’s happened since my last post in mid-March. When we... [Continue Reading]
The Red State blog also notices that Obama’s reduction of the charitable tax deduction will negatively affect charities in this country and concurs with my supposition of the motive: With this proposal, President Obama is saying as directly as... [Continue Reading]
When we moved to Holbrook last November, I wrote about how I considered the town’s solution to the expensive problem of trash disposal to be quite fair. At the time, homeowners paid what was essentially a consumption tax on the trash. You... [Continue Reading]
Mary Jo Anderson reflects on Christmas a time of spiritual pilgrimage, usually an interior journey of faith and trust in God’s providence that mirrors the real journey of the Holy Family and the shepherds and the Wise Men to Bethlehem... [Continue Reading]
Back in August I wrote about my frustration with Lighthouse Catholic Media, a Catholic apostolate that distributes CDs of talks by popular Catholic authors and others. Read that short post to see what I was dealing with, but the gist is that they... [Continue Reading]
I just cleaned out our takeout menu file of all the old Salem/Beverly/Peabody places we frequented to make room for new Holbrook/Randolph/Abington menus, which was a sadder experience than I expected. There are a lot of memories in those old... [Continue Reading]
The third time was the charm. As some of you know, Melanie and I have been looking for a new place to live for the past 6 months or so and now we have it. We’ve known about our need to move since I started my job at the Archdiocese of Boston... [Continue Reading]
A couple of days ago I posted a video from a group called The Catholic Vote, essentially urging Catholics to consider the important role we play in the public square when we do our civic duty with our Catholic moral principles in mind, including... [Continue Reading]
Update 7/9/12: Well, it’s been almost four years and I’ve heard nary a peep from the folks at LCM. They’ve kept their end of the bargain and I’ve been left blessedly alone. The reason I’m writing now is that today it... [Continue Reading]