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I have the privilege of serving Communion at All Saints’ Church in Akron where I am an officer. We celebrate the Supper each week. I have become so captivated by weekly Communion that I miss ... Read More

The story at the link below is some of the best news that I have heard about education in the last year. It is the story of a group of inner-city Catholic schools called the Cristos Rey High ... Read More

Emily and I watched Avatar last night. We both enjoyed it. This morning, however, my dissection of the movie began and my disappointment is increasing. Most—at least if I take into account ... Read More

As a follow up to my last post, Dick Morris (former Clinton administration advisor turned Republican) played the scenario out as a game of political chicken. It is an interesting article:

Today, again, the Intelligencer Journal warned of obvious, implacable, impending, fiscal doom, and we, as a state, seem to simply be content to push back judgment day:

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I have fallen in love with Florence. At first it was a tentative love on my part—they wronged Dante and they act now like he is their favorite son. LIARS! They also have not done a lot of ... Read More

As I write this email, I am on a train hurtling down the track headed to Florence. I am making the trek that The Poet Dante always longed to make. He longed for Florence to call him back, to ... Read More

I am writing this from a restaurant in Orvieto, Italy. Emily and I are spending a week here mixing work and pleasure—a mix that makes both better, but more on that later. We are in search of ... Read More

At the end of the day today, I will complete my 13th year as Headmaster of Veritas Academy. I want to thank all of you for making this year a particularly blessed one. There is always an end of ... Read More

Today, the story hit the paper that Floyd Landis has come clean. He did use drugs, he says, ubiquitously. How sad! How non-Lancastrian! There are a number of troubling elements in this tale. I ... Read More