Spreading Happiness

A modern version of Karen’s and my song, which I post with best wishes to my son and his wife Bethany, who he married on June 13, 2009, which was meant to be the day I posted this, but I’m on the road where I never can get things done. Karen and I celebrated our 25th [...]

Wouldn’t it Be Nice?

This song was already in oldie in 1983, but it well-expressed my feelings toward you, Karen, when your brother David was turning onto the Gardiner Expressway in downtown Toronto with us in the car (was it his Mazda?) and it came on the radi0. It turned out to be true too. It’s Nice. And in 6 days [...]

Pudewa and Kern on Writing!

Update:
Nancy tells me that some seats remain available for this writing workshop on July 22. If you have hesitated to sign up, now’s the time! Don’t delay.
I know I think too highly of myself, but I also know that I can’t think too highly of 1. what I have learned from my superiors and 2. Andrew Pudewa.
Therefore, [...]

How Christians can approach classical literature

Jacque-Benigne Bossuet, Bishop of Meaux, in a letter to Innocent XI
Logic and morals serve to cultivate the two principal operations of the human mind: the faculties of understanding and willing. For logic, we have drawn from Plato and Aristotle, not so as to serve vain disputes about words, but to form the judgment by solid [...]

Things that make life worth living

Karen, I love you. And you love me too. So simple. Let’s keep it that way! In one week, we’ll have been married 25 years. Thanks.

Elvis does a nice version of this too, but I couldn’t embed it. 
And yes I remember the day you took my hand.
Was it at Sears? That [...]

The mark of an educated man

“It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits;”
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Here is one of the most important principles of thought ever expressed and one that has been universally neglected in our day. We look for scientific precision [...]

Learning The Craft of Writing

In my earlier posts on What is Writing, I suggested that we have to attend to two elements of writing to become something like a great writer. Let me qualify that statement. Even if you want to be a good writer, it will happen to the extent that you attend to these two elements. They are drawn [...]

Proserpina has ascended

Proserpina has ascended from Hades, set free from her cruel husband, the lord of the underworld.  Ceres, her mother, is rejoicing and her singing makes the flowers bloom, the grass green, and the sun shine forth with all his mighty heat.  Mourning is over for her, the goddess of crops and fertility, and so the [...]

There are things that only God knows

Here’s one of them, Karen. I don’t think this can be overstated. 8 days to 25 years. 5 days to David and Bethany’s wedding!

Let me give my life to you

I think this might be my favorite pop song. I’ve seen, heard, tasted, smelled, and touched so many beautiful things in my short life, but nothing compares with your soul, Karen. I love you. You have filled up my senses for, in nine days, 25 years.

Do you remember the night’s we’ve [...]