Farewell, Virginia.

No, this is not an ode to the Old Dominion; rather, another soul has departed to see God face to face — may He be merciful to you.

Aunt Ginny has died.

It’s a funny thing to be celebrating the beginning of a new life with a child on the one hand and the end of another life on the other hand. Our lives are full of dichotomies and contrasts that way.[...]

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Welcome back to As For Me And My House (Jos 24:15), the place where the rubber meets the road. You can subscribe directly to this series here. ========================== They say that duct tape isn’t a valid parenting style. My question is: have they ever had a 3 year old? I have, and I question this [...]

Welcome back to As For Me And My House (Jos 24:15), the place where the rubber meets the road. You can subscribe directly to this series here. ========================== Rush. Rush. Rush. Our lives are busy and seemingly getting busier. Everyone agrees that slowing down is good, but nobody seems to actually do it. However, the [...]

Welcome back to As For Me And My House, the place where the rubber meets the road. I am a Nodling generator. Astute readers of my blog will have noticed a new seal that appeared several weeks ago without explanation. It shows a small set of footprints encircled by the words “Official Nodlings Generator”. The [...]

Welcome to As For Me And My House! This series chronicles the place where “the rubber meets the road” in the Nod household. For those of you just tuning in: these are the Nods. Boys. They are like chips off of the old block. When they’re four years old, they follow Daddy everywhere, because he’s [...]

Catholic Dads is growing! A new and exciting aspect is a featured writers section. I am pleased to be able to bring you one of those one day each week. They say you should write what you know.  As a Catholic Dad of a fistful of children (the Nodlings), I’ve come to know the daily [...]

It was a dark and stormy night. The only catch was, it wasn’t raining – at least not yet. My brother and I had just sat down to chew the fat. Guy stuff. Bull sessions they call ‘em. A chance to sit around and just be a man, no questions asked, no pardon required. The [...]

Wynken was on the Boy Scouts 100th Anniversary Camporee this weekend at Goshen. The last such Camporee was sometime back in 1970-something; the next one is likely not until the Boy Scouts’ 150th anniversary. So, in that sense it was fairly historic. The rest of the Nodlings were very occupied with our many coming and [...]

Actually, it was overheard on Catholic Radio. A man calls in regarding whether it is permissible to be sterilized at a certain age if there is a history of begetting children with genetic defects after 40. The host responds that we need to see children with Biblical eyes, as gifts from the Lord. He goes [...]

This is a bit novel: games with real-life purposes and applications. A team of biologists have created a game called Fold It (at the equally clever domain name fold.it). David Baker, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher at the University of Washington, designed a game that uses human intuition about puzzle solving to help predict [...]