Sunday, April 26, 2020 – Your Excellency, Peace be to you, dear Bishop, and may I humbly extend warm and prayerful greetings. These are trying times. I cannot imagine the stress and woe you and our devoted priests are under. Please know our family’s daily prayers are with you. I write to you on this Read More
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Day 40 – Some Basic Deep Pantry Rules
Saturday, April 25, 2020 – Continuing with our installments of “prepper-lite,” today I want to give a few of our family’s general rules for making a deep pantry. Again, I am NOT an extreme prepper, nor is any of my personal experience meant to be taken as Gospel truth. If you do not agree with Read More
Day 39 – What is a “Deep Pantry,” and Do You Need One?
Friday, April 24, 2020 – All right, this should have been discussed earlier, but a friend only recently asked me about this, so I’m writing a series of posts on…dun, dun, dun! THE DEEP PANTRY! (please read that last phrase in a deep, scary voice). For the record, none of what I say should be Read More
Day 38 – The Social Media Scarlett Letter
Thursday, April 23, 2020 – There does not seem to be any rational thought left in people. The idea of sitting down with someone over a beer or cup of coffee and discussing your differences is long gone. Gone too are the days of a handshake and amicable parting of ways. Instead, we now get Read More
Day 37 – Chips, Couches, and My Personal Responsibility
Wednesday, April 22, 2020 – Isolation and depression are real things, and they usually—and unfortunately—go together. They are terrible and terrifying. Likewise, stress eating and depressive eating are also real. Not to be “all about me,” but I am going to get a little personal because I have had these issues in my past. Please Read More
Day 36 – Put the Candle Back!
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 – Have you ever watched the 1974 comedy, “Young Frankenstein”? One of my favorite scenes is the rotating bookcase where Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) and Inga (Teri Garr) are trying to find the distant music and get stuck in a rotating bookcase. You can watch the scene HERE or below. Read More
Day 35 – Another Unpopular Post
Monday, April 20, 2020 – We are at a precarious tipping point in America. A handful of agencies are talking 2 or 3 YEARS (!?!?!) of this. Some Governors are starting to (rightly) consider the long-term ramifications of putting literally everything on hold for ONE thing. The news has gone bonkers with “less than accurate” Read More
Day 34 – A Sunday by Any Other Name…
Sunday, April 19, 2020 – One of the most celebrated days in the Catholic calendar is Divine Mercy Sunday. Seriously, people go nuts for today. What a lot of people do not know is that today has a myriad of names! Today I want to talk about all the names for, well, today. And I Read More
Day 33 – People with Bad Hygiene are Panicked Over my Clean Non-Panic
Saturday, April 1, 2020 – Recently, I have been shouted at several times by friends, family, and complete strangers. Just the other day an acquaintance screamed bloody murder at me for “not taking this seriously.” Apparently, they take issue with my non-panic. Indeed, I was yelled at for: going to a park to walk away Read More
Day 32 – Party Like it is the Sixth Day of Easter!
Friday, April 17, 2020 – As Catholics, we celebrate Easter for a season, but we also have eight days of solemnity: Easter Sunday through Divine Mercy Sunday (the Second Sunday of Easter). “The first eight days of Easter Time constitute the Octave of Easter and are celebrated as Solemnities of the Lord.” (GNLY, 24) Since Read More
