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July 2014

July 01, 2014

SMASH CUT TO Fourteen Years Later

Well, that went well. ...and continues to go well, actually. Really, really well. But wait...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Summa Shorts: “Duet”

Gosh, this is gorgeous. From Cartoon Brew's story this past Thursday: This morning at the...

June 24, 2014

Cormac and the Five Cherry Pits

A funny little Cormac (Sixth Son) story, which I'm putting here for safe-keeping because it's...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Definitely Not in Kansas Any More

Last night, Son Number One -- the newly-teen-aged-one (O.M.G!!!) -- had his first baseball game of...

April 22, 2014

Lifestyles of the Young and Liturgically Impressionable

A brief account of my favorite moment from the just-completed Triduum. (Well, OK. Fine. My...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Speaking Truth to Power, Jamie-Style

View image | gettyimages.com This past Saturday, as Sarah was out grocery-shopping with Dominic, and...

February 2014

February 09, 2014

Animated Anticipation: Blocking Out Some Time for “The Lego Movie”

I'm taking the Top Five to see The LEGO Movie this afternoon. It's been on...

January 2014

January 15, 2014

Spirited Digitally Away

A recent post from Greg Willits -- "A Dad's Guide to Minecraft" -- made me...

December 2013

December 11, 2013

The Benefits of Reading for (and to) Others

Confucius once said "Give a man a fish and feed him for a day... ...but...

November 2013

November 06, 2013

Things Learned Between WY and CA (and Relearned Between CA and WY)

Thing One: That's a radiator cap. Everyone (or every car) should have one. For a...

October 2013

October 18, 2013

Cyan’s Back!

I don't have a lot of teenage memories. In fact, as I've surely remarked/lamented before,...

October 04, 2013

“Mother, look! What’s all this?”

We have no use for melodramatic Starkian warnings here in Wyoming. Winter isn't "coming;" it is,...

September 2013

September 19, 2013

The Laughter of Learning

Homeschooling a whole mess of boys is a huge challenge. And I say this knowing...

September 16, 2013

The Family That Views Together…

View image | gettyimages.com The weekend was insane. Again. Some day soon, I'll come to...

August 2013

August 29, 2013

A Quote I Just Can’t Shake

Things have been a bit crazy over the past few days, both personally and professionally....

August 19, 2013

Better Parenting through Lunch Preparation

An incredibly exciting/demoralizing thing happened last week: we got an entire carton of apples from...

July 2013

July 18, 2013

You Don’t Find Memories; Memories Find You

On Tuesday, I took The First Five to see Pixar's latest, Monsters University. The film...

July 02, 2013

The Love Language of Little League

As this year's two-month Little League marathon drew to a close, I came to realize...

April 2013

April 29, 2013

Wait. Are These Weeks Coming Two at a Time Now?

OK, so that's a rhetorical question. But I can't always tell... Take the last seven...

April 09, 2013

Snow Days, Wyoming Style

So... ...we may have gotten a bit more snow during the night than we were...

March 2013

March 19, 2013

From One Father to Another, Gratitude

I consider it an honor and an even greater blessing to have been named after...

March 14, 2013

Watching with the Family as Papal History Unfolds

View image | gettyimages.com I love the fact that we must wait to learn the...

January 2013

January 18, 2013

When Winning Is Everything

In the wake -- or, I fear, in the eye -- of this week's mind-boggling...

December 2010

December 16, 2010

“Bicycle Thieves” and the Victory of Our Fragility

For a father, there are few moments filled with more deeply conflicting emotions than when...

December 03, 2010

The Specter of Broken Fatherhood in the Films of Wes Anderson

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly...

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