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Seriously? This shouldn’t surprise me. But how do you bake with lard in stuff like cookies? “Toldja so!” rant from Erik in 3… 2… 1…

Fulfillment does not lie in comfort, ease, and following one’s inclinations, but precisely in allowing demands to be made upon you, in taking the harder path. Everything else turns out somehow boring, anyway. Only the person who recognizes an ideal he must satisfy, who takes on real responsibility, will find fulfillment. It is not in… Continue reading Fulfillment lies in taking the harder path

and a milestone birthday at that 🙂

“Frequently compliments wife re: looks, housekeeping, cooking, etc (5 points)”

Lileks (emphasis mine; RTWT): ….it must be funny, because David is funny and hip. Right? Or maybe not; maybe he’s actually a brackish, hermetically-souled guy who’s spend the last twenty years going from table to table with a giant wooden grinder, asking anyone if they want some fresh-ground scorn with that. Say when. Or maybe… Continue reading You stay classy, David Letterman

Five Reasons why Catholics should Care About Food

Skimming lightly, wheeling still, The swallows fly low Over the field in clouded days, The forest-field of Shiloh – Over the field where April rain Solaced the parched ones stretched in pain Through the pause of night That followed the Sunday fight Around the church of Shiloh – The church so lone, the log-built one,… Continue reading Shiloh: A Requiem