All Is Vanity

And so we’ve arrived. What Jonathan Swift wrote as satire in 1729 as A Modest Proposal, and Hollywood presented as science fiction (Soylent Green and The Twilight Zone’s “To Serve Man”) has come to pass. Only instead of ingesting flesh we are putting it on our faces to serve that vile master Vanity. How very [...]

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3rd Sunday of Lent: “Woman, behold, your son! Son, behold, your mother!”

Jesus emptied himself. Mary emptied herself. St. Paul writes, “Have this mind among yourselves, which you have in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of [...]

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“The full-throated cry…”

In Sunday’s NY Times of all places, an article written by Professor David Hlavsa of St. Martin’s University in Lacey, Washington, struck me right between the eyes and through my heart. I’ve never written a full account of the circumstances surrounding the loss of our second child to miscarriage and still am not quite ready. [...]

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Been gone so long…

Sorry for my absence of late. I’m in the frantic last week of playing little league commissioner as well as beginning a 3-day work-related workshop today so my online time is pretty sparse. Be back soon!

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Uno

Finally. I’ve begun anew. It will take me some time to get back into the swing of things and feel my way around the new digs after having spent so many years at Quo Vadam, but I am very much looking forward to it.
Let the games begin…

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