Reluctant Rebel

Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday. No church, no gifts, lots of food, casual clothes, and a reminder of what the good earth has provided. Gr...

Like it or not, we live in a country where all kinds of people occupy space. Most are not descendants of indigenous peoples. We do not sha...

Assisi, Italy I guess I'm on a Catholic trend. I posted this to a website:  John Wijngaards Catholic Research Centre  where they a...

Bishop Poprocki of Springfield Illinois will be performing an exorcism to ward off the evil of same-sex marriage in Illinois, to ward off t...

After I posted the Preface to Did You Ever See A Horse Go By - A Coming Out Memoir, I was thinking about someone who I called Silvio in the...

I've made passing reference to the fact that I've been working on a memoir.  I belong to a writers' group - a small group o...

Thanks to Colleen at Enlightened Catholicism for this Jose Arregi: Open Letter to Pope Francis on the Family The following ...

Thanks to Wicked Gay Blog for this:  

OK. So the US Congress after raping the American economy finally has stopped browbeating us, the people they work for and now they want to...

As an example of how the GOP and the Tea Party has gone Through the Looking Glass and apparently been eating magic mushrooms and turning rea...

Meet the Morons in Esquire: The Reign of Morons is Here by Charles Pierce

Existentialism Revisited I never believed in the wisdom of living for today because today always seems as much an illusion ...

Another bad business decision and a reply from Barilla. I posted this on my cooking blog Dinner's Ready andI'm posting it he...

Finally got around to sorting out some photos I took on vacation. Same old vacation, same old beach, but a brand new PTown. As my ...