Monthly Archives: September 2003

We’re heading to Lake Superior this weekend for a little more adventurous geocaching in the Duluth area while we take in the fall colors. I doubt the colors will be this good because of the drought we’ve had this year. … Continue reading →

Tomorrow is the 150th anniversary of St. Peter’s Church in Mendota, MN. My family belonged to the parish while I was growing up and I went to its Catholic school from 5th through 8th grade. My mother was a teacher … Continue reading →

Utne’s Web Watch has a blurb on the Sexiest Movie Scenes Without Sex by Leo Schlink. The link to the original article is broken but here’s the working link. It’s all part of Utne’s Sep/Oct cover story, Unleash Your Erotic … Continue reading →

Thanks to Tyson (one of my kids) for pointing me to this Washington Post article yesterday: Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson prayed on his Christian Broadcasting Network, based in Virginia Beach, that Isabel would turn from the coast. He asked God … Continue reading →

In this week’s Time: Real Men Get The Blues: Depression is twice as common among women as men, but it may be the guys who suffer most. Often just as effective as any drug is cognitive therapy, a form of … Continue reading →

A footnote to earlier posts (here and here) re: married men visiting strip clubs: Lap dancing banned in Los Angeles: “The City Council has voted to ban lap dances and all other physical contact between entertainers and customers at strip … Continue reading →

My wife and I went geocaching for several hours last weekend. On the last hunt of the day (covered bridge park near Zumbrota), we met three delightful local kids on the trail (Jeffrey, Crystal, and Cassie) and they asked to … Continue reading →

My kids and I took my mother out for pizza this week to celebrate her 80th birthday. It went okay but it pisses me off that I let myself briefly turn into a teenager once again. I can’t exactly remember … Continue reading →

I’m experimenting using Google’s AdSense service. They give you code to place on your site and it generates context-sensitive text ads automatically. When people click through to the ad’s website, you earn varying amounts of money. I have the option … Continue reading →

Real Live Preacher tells a story about his wife’s love for him: “In the days when J. and I were engaged, she once answered the door of her apartment with a banana in her hand. Understand that this woman hates … Continue reading →

The World According To Chuck: a riveting story about his autistic son: The rages started when he was about 4, and they were ugly. His rage, my rage. One day he punched his mother, just hauled off and decked her. … Continue reading →

We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them. – Duc de La Rochefoucauld This article about philanthropist Zell Kravinsky, Kidney donor pushes his altruism to the extreme, appeared in … Continue reading →

One helpful outcome of our attempt at an at-home vacation (we bailed on our camping trip because of my bad back) was stumbling upon a NadaChair booth at the Minnesota State Fair. The chairs “effectively prevent slouching while relieving back … Continue reading →

Kent Nerburn wrote in his weblog last week about seeing the sudden spiritual transformation of a woman who survived a severe auto accident. “I can’t explain it. It would be simple to say that she has gained a newfound wisdom … Continue reading →

The Sept. issue of the American Enterprise magazine has nine articles on men, part of its cover story, Real Men: They’re Back. Only three of the nine articles are online so I ordered a single copy of the print issue. … Continue reading →

Some feedback from Stuart Greene, author of the Rake piece Should Married Men Go to Strip Clubs?. I loved your comments with regard to my column in The Rake– I think you provide the subtlety that my column lacked. Like … Continue reading →

In yesterday’s NY Time Magazine: The Futile Pursuit of Happiness. (Read/grab it before it disappears in 7 days.) Some really interesting research on something termed affective forecasting is being done by four academics who’ve “… begun to question the decision-making … Continue reading →

Role reversal: Unconventional wisdom in the personals “A new study suggests some guys may be losing their single-minded preoccupation with women’s bodies and are instead going weak in the knees over financially well-endowed femmes.”

People underrate their attractiveness, study finds No matter how buff they might be, men rate themselves as being less muscular than women do. Women perceive themselves as heavier than men see them… “We tend to think the opposite sex wants … Continue reading →

If you were a teenaged malicious hacker, what better result could you hope for than this? Hopkins Internet suspect: Government exaggerating: “Meanwhile, Parson was the buzz among his classmates at Hopkins High on Tuesday, the first day of school. As … Continue reading →

I’ve started reading Slate lately and found this piece from last week: The immorality of the Ten Commandments by Christopher Hitchens. “… a condemnation of adultery (from which humans actually can refrain) and a prohibition upon covetousness (from which they … Continue reading →

I don’t normally read the advice columns but today’s Dear Abby has a gem that just grabbed my attention in this morning’s paper: Pastor leads married woman into temptation and more. It reminds me of one of my all-time favorite … Continue reading →