Things I Think About

1. You know the hours he has spent looking at Swiss watches on Chrono24 but you also know he is way too practical for those. He just admi...

I. Tolkien's buildings II. The California bungalow III. The Arts and Crafts movement IV. The Sears Mail-Order House V. Th...

I have a grandson. His name is Oliver ( of Ancona ) Augustine ( of Hippo ). Kathleen and I flew to Boston and then drove to Kittery, Maine...

When I was 12 years old my Mom and Dad and I moved to Tampa , Florida. There was a little corner store near our house that sold Chocolate Y...

Today Kathleen (my wife) and Basil Wenceslas (my 4th son) went with me to the cemetary in Paso Robles. We prayed the trasagion for the depa...

Last week I met a man who has never been out of California. I was astounded by that idea. By the time I was 16 years old I had been to mor...

I have two followers who are always asking me what to invest in (I think you are nuts.) so I figure maybe other people care what I invest in...

The pope of Rome died. Already, people have asked me who I think the next pope of Ronme should be. I'm Orthodox so it doesn't, reall...

I have been sick. I missed three weeks of work and four weeks of church. Yesterday, Holy Saturday was my first Communion since I got sick....

Back in the 1990s and 2000s, when I worked in the advertising industry, I used to eat pretty often, maybe twice a week, at Max's Diner o...

When I was a boy I read lots and lots of apologetical books; defenseses of Creationism, mainly, that attempted to show that only God could h...

I made something new for Meatfare a couple of days ago. The week after Christmas, when all the hams were on sale for a reduced price, I bo...

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you have learned it and how from childhood you...

I dont think I've said anything on this blog about my new job. I quit being a teacher during the Christmas break. I am now a salesman ...

I just read the news that the Aga Khan is dead. I had heard of him, of course, many decades ago (I think it was the late 1970s) but I didn...

It seems to me, and maybe, it's just because of how old I am and the music I heard growing up, but the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s wer...

In 1971 the British rock band, The Who had a big hit with their song Won't Get Fooled Again . It reminds me of the words I sing in chu...

Snyder's show c ame on the teevee after Carson's show signed off. I first saw his show in 1980 or 81. I watched Snyder's teev...

I was a soldier. I qualified as an "expert" with the M16A1 rifle, M16A2 rifle, and the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (Saw gun) . (...

In the last couple of years it has come to my attention that people rarely go to the cinema to see movies anymore. I know I don't, I c...

A ham is a big piece of meat. After you've cooked it it can last all week in your refrigerator. Yes, of course you took the bone out a...

There are two Christmas songs I have loved since the first time I heard them many years ago, The Holly and the Ivy and The Holly Bears a B...

It was a joy to visit St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in San Jose on the early morning of Christmas eve. I hadn't been there in more tha...

As I mentioned a few months ago in this blog, my oldest brother died. Yesterday, I got a text message saying to go to his widow's house...

My wife reminded me that I haven't published this years Christmas list. I told her I have everything I want or need but she didn't ...

Last night after work I went to a boxing tournament one of my students was competing in. I was ringside, and it was a tremendous amount of ...

Thanksgiving I met my son's in-laws. On the way down to Oceanside, where they live, we passed several things I had never seen before an...

After work tonight My step-son and I made four pies: a pair of the cranberry walnut and a pair of pecan. While they were baking, Katleen a...

I went pheasant hunting again this morning. The club I am in has dogs. The dog dog I used was uncontrolable. She would not follow command...

Today is Monday. On Saturday morning Basil (son #4) and I went pheasant hunting. (I am a member of a hunting club in Birds Landing and it...

I was going to go coyote hunting today but it's raining too hard. That's okay. We need the rain. Basil was here last night. We m...

Life: I have met more politicians and press people and community activists than I have ever wanted to meet. And I am a politician. Everyd...

Three days ago I looked at my hand and did not see my Dad's wedding ring. I looked all over the house and did not find it. After sever...