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Sunday, August 28, 2011

Book Review: Peter Treegate's War

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The second book of the Treegate series, Peter Treegate's War , picks up the tale at the Battle of Bunker Hill, with Peter, his father Jo...
Wednesday, August 03, 2011

The real "third way"

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Here's an excellent article by Armstrong Williams that explores the two alien extremes that are battling for supremacy over Western civi...
Sunday, July 24, 2011

Book Review: John Treegate's Musket

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My generation may have been the last one that was trained to honor and respect the Founding Fathers of the American republic without the fil...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

Book Review: Cross Among the Tomahawks

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Click here for more info. Saint Jean de Brebeuf--also known as Echon--is one of my all-time favorite saints. A towering, masculine figur...
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Monday, June 27, 2011

Book Review: Augustine Came to Kent by Barbara Willard

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Click for more info. When I first saw this book, I thought, “Wait, when did Saint Augustine go to Kent? I thought he had lived his whole lif...
Monday, June 06, 2011

The Dave Barry of Catholic Homeschooling Moms

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Writing humor is difficult. Because humor is so subjective, one of two things usually happen when people try to write it: 1.) It falls flat ...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Rapture Church Sign

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A few days late, but I'm posting my rapture church sign here for future reference.
Sunday, April 10, 2011

Book Review: Mara, Daughter of the Nile

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Though she has lived as a slave in Egypt for as long as she can remember, young Mara was not always so. She has no recollection of her paren...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Book Review: The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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Young Ranofer is the son of Thutra, master goldsmith. When Thutra died, poor Ranofer was left to the not-so-tender mercies of his half-broth...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Jumong -- or why I have given up on American TV

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Recently, our cable company sent us warning letters that our service could be disrupted if our TV wasn't fitted with a special digital c...
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Thursday, March 17, 2011

The Real Saint Patrick

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When most people think of Saint Patrick, visions of shamrocks, green beer, and yummy Irish "potatoes" spring immediately to mind. ...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Book Review: St. Francis (Christian Encounters series)

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The Christian Encounters series is a well-produced collection of short biographies of individuals who in some way impacted (or were impacted...
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Sunday, February 06, 2011

Book Review: Pegeen

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The Bantry Bay series by Hilda van Stockum wraps up with Pegeen , the story of an orphan girl who is taken in temporarily by the O'Sulli...
Sunday, January 09, 2011

Book Review: Francie on the Run

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Having finished The Cottage at Bantry Bay , my children immediately began agitating to read the next book in Hilda van Stockum's series ...
Monday, January 03, 2011

Book Review: The Cottage at Bantry Bay

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This book came highly recommended along with several others by Hilda van Stockum. When I mentioned that I had never heard of them or that pa...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

Book Review: Herodotus and the Road to History

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Having read Jeanne Bendick's previous books, Archimedes and the Door to Science and Galen and the Gateway to Medicine , I have been wai...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

Book Review - Kateri Tekakwitha: Mohawk Maid

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My wife and I went to Auriesville, NY back in September and visited Ossernenon, the site of the Mohawk village where Blessed Kateri Tekakwit...
Sunday, October 31, 2010

Book Review: How the Irish Saved Civilization

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I am not Irish myself. However, I grew up among Americans of Irish extraction and my wife is part Irish. I therefore have a great respect an...
Sunday, October 17, 2010

Book Review - Padre Pio: The True Story

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Padre Pio is easily the most well-known and beloved mystic saint of the 20th century. Like most people, all I knew about Padre Pio before re...
Sunday, October 10, 2010

Book Review - The Ghosts of Cannae

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Roman history is an interest of mine, though normally I prefer to read it "from the horse's mouth" -- that is, from the primar...
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A Roman tribune, my heroics helped defeat the Persians at the Battle of Satala in AD 530. Leading a squadron of heavy cavalry into the Persian center, I grabbed hold of the standards of the Persian general Mermeroes and flung them to the ground. Thinking their general slain, the Persian army fled from the field, but not before their elite Immortals dealt me a fatal wound.
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