Post 373 November 23 & 24

Post 372 It Be Like That Sometimes

Post 371 Footsteps

Post 370 November 23 & 24

Post 369 Men to Avoid: Reflections on Addiction

Post 368 What Troubles Me: Reflections on the ‘Accidental’ Death of Halyna Hutchins

Post 367 The Movement We Need

Post 366 I Got a Phone and It Got Me in Trouble

Post 365 Fooling Yourself: Reflections on Cost Per Wear

Post 364 Long Time No See: Reflections on the Summer of 2021

Post 363 Small Talk About the Weather

Post 362 November 23 & 24

Post 361 analogy in paris

Post 360 All Souls’ Day 2020

Post 359 tbh

Post 358 Snow White Interior Design

Post 357 Arrival

Post 356 January 25, 2018

Post 355 January 19, 2018

Post 354 January 18, 2018

Post 353 January 6, 2018

Post 352 January 4, 2018

Post 351 January 3, 2018

Post 350 January 2, 2018

Post 349 January 1, 2018

Post 348 December 30, 2017

Post 347 December 28, 2017

Post 346 December 27, 2017

Post 345 We Were Upside Down: Reflections on Coronavirus

Post 344 December 26, 2017

Post 343 December 24, 2017

Post 342 December 22, 2017

Post 341 December 21, 2017

Post 340 Family Counselling, Part 16: Goodbye for Now

Post 339 Family Counselling, Part 15: The Weight of Waiting

Post 338 Family Counselling, Part 14: Patriarch

Post 337 Family Counselling, Part 13: Homeland

Post 336 Family Counselling, Part 12: Hungry

Post 335 Family Counselling, Part 11: Zaphenathpaneah

Post 334 Family Counselling, Part 10: Update

Post 333 Family Counselling, Part 9: The End

Post 332 Family Counselling, Part 8: Cancelled

Post 331 Family Counselling, Part 7: Jacob’s Past, Continued

Post 330 Family Counselling, Part 6: Understanding “the Sins of the Father”

Post 329 Family Counselling, Part 5: Jacob’s Past

Post 328 Family Counselling, Part 4: Wrestling with Jacob

Post 327 Family Counselling, Part 3: Reflections on Favouritism

Post 326 Family Counselling, Part 2: The Coat

Post 325 Family Counselling, Part 1: Introductions

Post 324 Grace Refused: Reflections on Pope Francis’ Slapping of a Woman’s Hand

Post 323 Not What You Think It Is: Reflections on Leadership

Post 322 Dictator

Post 321 Professor

Post 320 November 23 & 24

Post 319 Can We Talk? Reflections on Conversation

Post 318 Unclassified: Reflections on Zelenskiy’s Conversation with Trump

Post 317 Hit List: Top 20 Posts

Post 316 Tears of Joy

Post 315 Remind Me

Post 314 Tell Me

Post 313 December 20, 2017

Post 312 December 19, 2017

Post 311 December 17, 2017

Post 310 Orest

Post 309 December 16, 2017

Post 308 December 15, 2017

Post 307 December 14, 2017

Post 306 Eulogy

Post 305 Spanish Proverbs: Reflections on Fourteen Favourites

Post 304 Did I mention?

Post 303 Radiation of Motherhood

Post 302 Dolce

Post 301 Amore

Post 300 Prelude

Post 299 Will You Leave? Reflections on Divorce

Post 298 A Small and Neatly-Folded Flat World: Reflections on Idolatry

Post 297 November 23 & 24

Post 296 A Chat Meeting: Reflections on a Bunch of Stuff

Post 295 Oh Pinocchio! Reflections on Lying

Post 294 Sent

Post 293 Seven Steps: Reflections on Being a Prophet

Post 292 Canada Day 2018

Post 291 All That Noise: Reflections on Envy

Post 290 Because I Actually Like Quebec: Reflections on the Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist

Post 289 Hidden Depths: Reflections on Identity and Suicide

Post 288 Up Late Last Night

Post 287 December 12, 2017

Post 286 Required Reading: Four Truths About Motherhood to Counter the Four Modern Lies

Post 285 The Grand Finale: A Recipe for December

Post 284 December 11, 2017

Post 283 December 10, 2017

Post 282 December 9, 2017

Post 281 December 3, 2017

Post 280 December 2, 2017

Post 279 November 28, 2017

Post 278 November 25, 2017

Post 277 November 20, 2017

Post 276 November 18, 2017

Post 275 15. XI. 2017

Post 274 Blame It on the Rain: A Reflection on Why Things Happen the Way They Do

Post 273 You Have 3 New Messages: Reflections on Keeping It Real

Post 272 14. XI. 2017

Post 271 November 17, 2017

Post 270 7. XI. 2017

Post 269 Because November is a Busy Month

Post 268 November 23 & 24

Post 267 Cutting it Close: A Recipe for October

Post 266 Even He: Reflections on Hell

Post 265 Here We Go Again? Reciprocity Revisited and a Recipe for September

Post 264 A Plea from the Pew: Reflections on Homilies

Post 263 Zucchini Cuisini: A Recipe for August

Post 262 A Recipe for July

Post 261 Right to Rewrite? Reflections on a Revised Version of The Merchant of Venice

Post 260 A Post that Roams and a Recipe for June

Post 259 Celestial: Reflections on Corpus Christi

Post 258 A Recipe for May

Post 257 Cubits Upon Cubits

Post 256 All About Asparagus: A Recipe for April

Post 255 Not What You Expected: The Small Voice of a Big God

Post 254 Maple Leaf in the Middle: Reflections on the Flags of North America

Post 253 The English Evasion: Reflections on Etiquette

Post 252 Sunburn: Reflections on the Flags of South America

Post 251 Star Crossed: Reflections on the Flags of Oceania

Post 250 Red Yellow Green: Reflections on the Flags of Africa

Post 249 Layers: A Recipe for March

Post 248 Ominous or Empty or Both: Reflections on the Flags of Asia

Post 247 Flags of Europe: Vexillology Like You’ve Never Seen It Before

Post 246 Another Thing You Don’t Need: Reflections on Eyebrows

Post 245 King for Now: Reflections on the Tyranny of Cool

Post 244 A Recipe for February

Post 243 Stranger and Stranger

Post 242 Can’t Touch This: Reflections on the Immeasurability of Suffering

Post 241 The Talk: Reflections on Giving up Your Cloak

Post 240 Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off: Reflections on the Cancellation of Othello

Post 239 The Tale of J. Noah Gallagher

Post 238 Cookbooks in My Cupboard: Reflections and a Recipe for January

Post 237 Speaking of English: Memories of L.A.

Post 236 Here’s My Essay, Baby! A Critique of the English 30-1 Diploma Examinations

Post 235 You Stand with Whom? Reflections on the Consent Order That Ended Wisdom Home Schooling

Post 234 By the Oaks of Mamre: An Update

Post 233 De•ba•cle: Reflections on a Curtain Call

Post 232 The Inspired Songs of 1999

Post 231 The Inspired Songs of 1998

Post 230 The Inspired Songs of 1997

Post 229 Where Do You Go and the Other Inspired Song of 1996

Post 228 Up Close and Personal: Reflections on the Art of Conversation

Post 227 Ancient Aramaic, Anyone? Reflections on the Art of Criticism

Post 226 Peak Performer: Popular Posts From Before

Post 225 Year Ten

Post 224 Easy Come Easy Go: Reflections on Snow Tires

Post 223 November 23 & 24

Post 222 Non! Reflections on Preservation of Culture

Post 221 The Inspired Songs of 1995

Post 220 Baby I Love Your Way: The Inspired Song of 1994

Post 219 Cold Zone: Reflections on a Visit to St. Joseph’s Seminary

Post 218 The Fruit on the Branch on the Tree in the Garden: Reflections on Temptation

Post 217 Blogger Watches the News

Post 216 Reading of Souls

Post 215 The Inspired Songs of 1993

Post 214 Are You Done Yet? Reflections on Hallowe’en Decorations

Post 213 If I Had $1000000: The Inspired Song of 1992

Post 212 The Inspired Songs of 1991

Post 211 The Inspired Songs of 1990

Post 210 A Little Bit About Your Lawyer

Post 209 Hey, Good Looking! Reflections on the University of Alberta Campus

Post 208 Duc in Altum: Let’s Tackle Your Front Closet

Post 207 That’s Quite the Parking Lot! A Review of the Review of Trinity Christian School Association’s Financial Management and Administration

Post 206 The Inspired Songs of 1989

Post 205 The End

Post 204 Rumpelstiltskin: He Was Sly and He Was Grim(m)

Post 203 The Inspired Songs of 1988

Post 202 The Inspired Songs of 1987

Post 201 No One Is to Blame: The Inspired Song of 1986

Post 200 348,686 Words Plus These

Post 199 You’re the Inspiration: The Inspired Song of 1985

Post 198 Below the Surface: The Tale of the Small Plane, the Stranger and the Shadow

Post 197 Missing You and the Other Inspired Song of 1984

Post 196 Cain Was Able: A Quick Look at a Song that Worked

Post 195 Blithering Lyricists: Analysis of a Song Saying Something or Other

Post 194 Asking & Answering: Three Exceptions to the Rule That You Don’t Deserve an Answer

Post 193 Even If Your Grass Is Greener: Three Considerations to Help You Avoid Envy

Post 192 Utter Rubbish: Reflections on an Article by Fr. George W. Rutler

Post 191 Nose in the Air: Reflections on a Paragraph Gone Wrong

Post 190 Yes I Know the Guy is a Yogi: Reflections on the Catholic Church’s Relations with the Rich and Famous

Post 189 Faithfully & The Other Inspired Song from 1983

Post 188 Who Can It Be Now? And Other Inspired Songs from 1982

Post 187 Until

Post 186 Notebook

Post 185 Another One Bites the Dust and Other Inspired Songs from 1981

Post 184 Scat Cat! Reflections on Politeness Versus Intention

Post 183 Showtime

Post 182 Labour Days: Reflections on Working with Proper Intention

Post 181 A Millisecond Before Death by a Pill: A Conversation with Prince

Post 180 Prove You’re Not a Robot: Reflections on the Balance Between Structure and Whim

Post 179 Alas

Post 178 Please Shut It Off: An Examination of JHW’s “Plea to the Pope”

Post 177 Red White & Gold: Olympics 2016 Standings for Canada, Poland and Some Other Places

Post 176 TGIF (Thank God It’s Friday): Reflections on God’s Favorite Plot Line

Post 175 Motor Mouth

Post 174 Bug Off

Post 173 It Looks Like Rain

Post 172 Olympic Coverage: Reflections on Clothing at the Games and Staying On Your Game Until the End

Post 171 A List

Post 170 Shall We Count the Ways? Reflections on JHW’s Wretched Magazine (August 2016 Issue)

Post 169 Deadly: Reflections on Weirdness and Sin

Post 168 Sooner or Later: Reflections on Removing Boundaries

Post 167 Pieces of My Mind: Miscellaneous Reflections

Post 166 It’s Raining: Reflections on the Evacuation of Hawrelak Park

Post 165 Cry Me a River: The Making of Boundaries, A Five-Part Guide

Post 164 Night Owl: Reflections on Devotion in Different Directions

Post 163 Frequently Unasked Questions

Post 162 Pardon Me? Reflections on Understandability at Mass

Post 161 Getting Off the Streets: Reflections on Garages

Post 160 Got You Covered: Reflections on Socks

Post 159 Imagine: A Drug Store Selling Drugs

Post 158 The Headache Post: Reflections on (Avoiding) Suffering

Post 157 How to Defame A Blogger: Guidelines and Tips on Breaking the Eighth Commandment (“You Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Your Neighbour”)

Post 156 Orbit: A Bit About You

Post 155 Weakdays & Weaknights

Post 154 Bookshelf: The Story of What Stayed and What Went

Post 153 Songbird: Reflections on Larry

Post 152 Rhinestone: MinedGems Blogger Says “My Gem!”

Post 151 And Furthermore . . . (Bittman v Blogger; Blogger v Bittman)

Post 150 Full Frontal: How it All Went Down

Post 149 Soup on Tuesday: Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Revised Standard Version

Post 148 The Promotional Material for a Basilica Cash Event Shows that Mortal Sin Is a Great Joke

Post 147 A Bottle-Cap Speaks: Reflections on Inspired Work

Post 146 The Office

Post 145 Starting Again

Post 144 The Show Mustn’t Go On: Reflections on Turning the Basilica into a Concert Hall

Post 143 Instituting Boundaries, A Five-Part Guide

Post 142 Your Move (Script Included)

Post 141 What to Say When Your Wife/”Wife” Asks/Tells You to Go for a Vasectomy

Post 140 President Who? Boston and Another Conspiracy Theory to Add to the Collection

Post 139 Walking on Water

Post 138 Not JFK But it Felt Like It (Part Two)

Post 137 Not JFK But It Felt Like It (Part One)

Post 136 The Reel Deal: This is Me, Baby

Post 135 Annexation and Stuff

Post 134 Sock It: Reflections on Religion at the Garden Centre

Post 133 Queen’s Coachman: Reflections on the New Q.C.

Post 132 Welcome (to Your New) Home: Reflections on Edmonton

Post 131 Safe: Reflections on the Fire of Fort McMurray

Post 130 Grasping

Post 129 How Not to Purchase a Purse

Post 128 Inside Job: A Bible Story

Post 127 Every Man as Hero: Reflections on Superman

Post 126 Back to the Drawing Board

Post 125 Belated Birthday Present

Post 124 Now Doves Cry

Post 123 Letting Go: Reflections on Getting Off the Grid

Post 122 The Gym? Ah yes, I’ve Heard of Such a Thing

Post 121 Ready, Thet, Go! Three Vocations

Post 120 Vocations: On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!

Post 119 Tuesday: Tabernacle Talk

Post 118 Watering on Wednesday: Full-Blast Rock(et) Gardening

Post 117 Monday: A Mallard Morning

Post 116 Fear Not: Reflections on Worry

Post 115 You Call That a What? Reflections on Apologies, Confession and Birthday Greetings

Post 114 If You Don’t Like the Way I Drive Then Get Off the Sidewalk

Post 113 Three Wishes

Post 112 Black: Out (Except for Some)

Post 111 Angel Raphael’s Song

Post 110 Hot (Potato) Art: Reflections on Abstract “Art”

Post 109 Birthday Soon

Post 108 Moo! Reflections on Entering Yet Another Secured Area

Post 107 To Your Credit

Post 106 From Point A to Point B

Post 105 At the Airport (With Stopovers)

Post 104 So Bad it Hurts

Post 103 Angry Birds: How it Looks When a Canadian Criticizes a Blogger Criticizing a Sign

Post 102 “Turbo-Tax” Sent Me Spam: Reflections on a Campaign Gone Wrong

Post 101 Pool

Post 100 The Eleventh Hour

Post 99 Spring Campaign: Reflections on Financial Support for Expectant and New Mothers

Post 98 A Ring for the Ride: Rollercoaster Mama

Post 97 Baby on Board

Post 96 Is this a Rhetorical Question?

Post 95 Emeralds & Rubies

Post 94 Walkie-Talkie: Part Five of Advice for Pro-Life

Post 93 Odd Numbers

Post 92 Gingham Style (the Alternative)

Post 91 Busted (By a Girl)

Post 90 Some Verse for the Occasion

Post 89 K.O.

Post 88 Battle, Mountain Standard Time

Post 87 Crypt•ic, Thrice

Post 86 Dream on, Distributist: Reflections on the Distribution of Religious (and “Religious”) Objects

Post 85 Pro-Baby, Pro-Mother, Pro-Pregnant Lady: Part Four of Advice for Those in Pro-Life

Post 84 Pro-Baby, Pro-Mother, Pro-Pregnant Lady: Part Three of Advice for Those in Pro-Life

Post 83 Pro-Baby, Pro-Mother, Pro-Pregnant Lady: Part Two of Advice for Those in Pro-Life

Post 82 Pro-Baby, Pro-Mother, Pro-Pregnant Lady: Part One

Post 81 The Modern Way: A New Kind of Nativity Play

Post 80 “Turnpike” Mass 2016: A Pro-lifer’s Thoughts

Post 79 What, is That Man Stalking Me or Something?

Post 78 Listen In One More Time: Pretend Advice for Mr. David Daleiden

Post 77 WTF? A Critique of the March 2016 issue of Faithful Insight Magazine

Post 76 Where Are You Going So Fast? (I Mean, Where are You Going So Medium-ish-like?)

Post 75 Dis•in•gen•u•ous

Post 74 The Human Body is Not a Bakery Product Either (So Let’s Not Call it That)

Post 73 Stupid, Stupid Courses: You’re Gettin’ in the Way of Me An’ My Lord, Mon! (Part Two)

Post 72 Stupid, Stupid Courses: You’re Gettin’ in the Way of Me An’ My Lord, Mon! (Part One)

Post 71 Trump Card

Post 70 News? “News”? Ha ha ha!

Post 69 Mass Time: In Defence of the Latecomer

Post 68 Vitamix™

Post 67 Unforeseen Dots: Connections Between Posts 65 and 64

Post 66 The Break-Up: Two Scripts

Post 65 Salad, Betrayal on the Side

Post 64 Just Rocket

Post 63 Don’t You Be Worryin’ About Us

Post 62 It’s Sometimes Called Direct Examination: Portions from the Transcript

Post 61 What’s Wrong with the World: A Defence (and Counterclaim) on behalf of G.K. Chesterton

Post 60 By the Way

Post 59 Something I Saw

Post 58 One by One, an Ode

Post 57 O Canada! Reflections on the National Anthem We Never Knew

Post 56 Villagers’ Refusal: An Allegory

Post 55 Cinderella’s Refusal: An Allegory

Post 54 Happy Holy Days: Let All Creation Give Him Homage

Post 53 One Candle: Reflections at Christmastide

Post 52 On the Wall: Mirrors Everywhere

Post 51 Roy G. Biv: What I Really Think About Impressionism, Children’s Toys, Cartoons and the Rainbow

Post 50 Plastic Bottle Cap: Reflections on Feeling Inadequate

Post 49 Sacrifice: A Double-Dare Prayer for an Atheist

Post 48 Make Your Day: Reflections on Having a Spiritual ‘Game Plan’ and a Prayer for an Agnostic

Post 47 The Elevator: Reflections on a Post that Comes and Goes

Post 46 The News at 11: Reflections on a Good Number

Post 45 Flubbed Lines: A Prayer About the Letter F

Post 44 Call Me When it’s Over: Reflections on Book Clubs

Post 43 Zoom Zoom Beep Beep: Reflections on a Restless Culture

Post 42 Boo! The Horror of Hallowe’en and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Post 41 Cornflower and Cadet Blue: Reflections on Crayons

Post 40 A Story of Exile: Reflections on the Life of the Stranger

Post 39 Hey Salamander! Reflections on Adjectives and Other Types of Name-Calling

Post 38 Bucket Lists: Reflections on Why Saints Don’t Have Them

Post 37 ‘Bucket List’: A Thought

Post 36 Our Daily Bread: Reflections on Bounty

Post 35 The Air in August: Reflections on Aging

Post 34 The Good, the Bad and the Unusual: More About Blogging

Post 33 So I Think You Can Dance: Reflections on Dancing Today

Post 32 Truth, Beauty and Goodness: Reflections on Precision

Post 31 A Strong Woman: Reflections on (New) Feminism

Post 30 A Strong Man: Reflections on Shakespeare’s Coriolanus

Post 29 Chesterton vs. Cornford: Reflections on “The Fat White Woman Speaks”

Post 28 What’s the Magic Word? Reflections on Prayer as Unmannered Asking

Post 27 Addicted to Statistics: Reflections on Increasing Blog Readership

Post 26 Damaged Goods: Reflections on the Four Ways Language has Deteriorated in the Modern Culture

Post 25 Until Next Time? Reflections on Connections in a Fast-Paced World

Post 24 Got Talent? Reflections on the Imbalance in Talents

Post 23 Looking Forward to It: Reflections on Anticipation, Ambition and the Big Dream

Post 22 My Pizza is Ruined! Reflections on the Small Battles

Post 21 Charlie Charlie: Reflections on Summoning a Demon

Post 20 Bystander: Reflections on the Context of Suffering

Post 19 Blogging: Reflections on Reflecting Aloud

Post 18 Zip it: Five Reasons Not to Blog

Post 17 Banquet of Beauty: Reflections on How a Church Should Look

Post 16 What’s the Word? Reflections on Capturing the Concept

Post 15 The Real Me: Reflections on Unconditional Love

Post 14 Big Words: Breaking out the Dictionary

Post 13 Sitting Pretty: Reflections on Duties

Post 12 Sine qua non: Reflections on Describing a Saint

Post 11 Got You! Reflections on Rhetoric and Argument

Post 10 Wanting like a Miser: Reflections on Staying Focused

Post 9 Are you the Nurse? Reflections on Uniforms

Post 8 Expiry Date: Reflections on the Unpredictability of our Lifespan

Post 7 The Wisdom of the Hospital Patient: Reflections on the Preciousness of Time

Post 6 Hospital Gowns: Reflections on Dignified Clothing

Post 5 Reciprocity: Some Relationships Are More Equal than Others

Post 4 Seeing the Bad Side: Knowledge vs Behaviour

Post 3 Unprofitable Talents: Reflections on Hobbies

Post 2 Mirror, Mirror: Reflections on Self-Perception

Post 1 Last Words: Reflections on Talking