Chicken Breasts, Chicken Wings
Long before my dad started his poultry business, we raised a few native chickens in our backyard. We started with a hen and a rooster my...
Looking at the Poor with New Eyes
If there were no hungry, no thirsty, no sick, no one needing clothes, food, drink, visits, shelter and caring in the world, what would...
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
A favorite insightful Canadian blogger (David Warren - “Essays in Idleness”) I follow daily ended his today’s brief post announcing his...
To Trap A Bird
Many were the things my friends and I did before we noticed girls. Aside from classes and homework, there were sports — softball, ping...
Getting Used to Snowless Winters
The first snow came late this winter in the Metro DC area last night after much anticipation from the weather forecast. But it fell just...
Kapitan Kidlat and Other Boyhood Heroes
When I was in elementary school, I had a regular supply of Tagalog and English comic books. My mom subscribed to the biweekly “Pilipino...
A History of the World
To Christians, human history is, in a nutshell, a continuing battle between good and evil. A profound Canadian blogger*, I found out, has...
Virtual Reality -- What You See Is What You Don’t Get
Back in the mid-1900s, as some can recall, life was very simple, not complicated. As young boys in our suburban neighborhood, we were...
Goodbye and Hello
In Fort Washington, the sky is gray on the afternoon of the last day of the year 2020. In our backyard, the towering maple trees and the...
Of Three Thomases and More
Saint Thomas á Becket, who the Church celebrates on December 29, brings to mind another Saint Thomas, a countryman of his, Thomas More. ...
