When I was growing up I can remember a time that my Daddy got tickets to see the Harlem Globetrotters. At the age I was I thought they were the best basketball players I had ever seen. I can remember just laughing and laughing and laughing. They could shoot from anywhere and hit “nothing … [Read more…]
The first time I came to the farm there were chickens and guineas and ducks and geese and turkeys all over the place. They had the run of the place. The family ate everything but the chicken eggs. They sold those. But it seemed as though those critters were all under foot. At some point … [Read more…]
There are the cornerstones of Fancy Farm, those that we have known our entire lives, who have really worked to shape the little community that we live in. These men, primarily, were born here, raised here, married women from here, raised their families here, and now, against our best wishes, are dying here. These men … [Read more…]
So the reading this Sunday at Mass from the Old Testament was from the book of Genesis. Maybe this is the first Bible Story we learn. It is the end of Adam and Eve and their paradise of Eden. From this point on their life is normal, mundane. From this point on all they have … [Read more…]
For Christmas my son got me a record player. Seriously. A turntable. Several years ago he discovered a turntable and decided that this was the new thing for music. I had a record player growing up. I usually played singles but my parents had a “stereo” and I used to play their albums on there … [Read more…]
Listening to the Gospel reading at Mass this week I made up my mind that I was going to be such a good Catholic, and this week, the week of Ash Wednesday and the week that Lent begins, I was going to live the Gospel. I was going to quit worrying. I was not going … [Read more…]