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 In my wallet, I still carry with me the selective service card I received when I turned 18. Since that was in 1997, and the Selective Servi...

 Last Friday night, my ten-year-old laid his head on the table at dinner and said, "I don't feel well..." ...and a week later,...

This is a really fascinating story , and a good example of the way that AI and be used as a tool for the traditional humanities: Machine lea...

It's book check time, my friends.  photo by Evan Laurence Bench There are plenty of memes that want to know all about your book history ...

It has been a time of dreams for me lately -- long, involving, pleasant dreams, full of plot and incident and characters both real and imagi...

We're about a week into 2024, and I don't have anything more intelligent to offer you than this inessential bit of textual analysis ...

It's December 31st, and the sidebar tells me that it is our least prolific writing year in the 18 years of the blog's existence.  Th...

For those in the Catholic media world, peace on earth was slow in coming this advent, as a mini firestorm blew up on December 18th with the ...

 I have a piece up in the The Pillar this week , advancing a framework for understanding why we see such different responses to the challeng...

Why have I not written? Let me count the ways. No, let me sum up. I have not written because I have not written. Life continues happily apac...

We are at that stage of Thanksgiving cleaning where everything looks worse before it looks better. I have been scrubbing bathrooms, three ye...

One should not let the perfect become the enemy of the good, and one should not let one's open tabs prevent one from doing other writing...

  Previous A clatter at the door, a bustle in the hall, and Margaret dashed into the kitchen shouting, "He's here! He's come!...

The Hamas pogrom on October 7th was the largest mass killing of Jews since the Holocaust, and yet the slaughter and Israel's military re...

Friends, we are home. I am so grateful to all the excellent staff at our parochial school who build a warm, supportive environment, and all ...