The Place to Take a Humor Break
a great story from Wil 3 who is the author of the amazing thriller Heartly God? (Shorehouse Books, 2017) My Nonna claimed to be Catholic. Her religious practice, like many Italian-Americans, included standard routines of […]
VENICE Doge’s Palace has a public toilet. See Venice while you can for many parts of it are sinking into the sea. It’s kinda like California slipping into the ocean at the rate of a […]
Today is once more Bad-Advice Friday. I, Doctor Paul, shall be dispensing bad advice to all comers. The advice will stupendously bad. ************************************** LF asks: Why do we have middle names? Dear LF: To distinguish […]
Striding across Randolph heading north on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue on my way to work one day in the early ’70s, a complete stranger (as opposed to an incomplete stranger) stopped me in the middle of […]
It’s funny that I was chosen to sing this morning at the St. Patrick’s Day mass at my church, because I am not Irish. It appears that there isn’t anything Celtic about me, at least […]
We Roman Catholics have our own set of “moments” that are peculiarly ours. 1. The moment you start to tell your sins in the confessional, and you forget every sin on your list except the […]
After Pope Francis’ address to the United States Congress yesterday, he declined many meal invites from the lawmakers in order to dine with area homeless people in Washington, D.C. Francis instead blessed a meal for […]
This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to anything living or dead is accidental, so don’t blame the author. I have enough problems. Novenas are cool. For nine days in a row, you say […]
Choir Practice It’s Wednesday night choir practice time. As usual, only half the choir has shown up. This is a problem, because we only have eighteen people to begin with: 2 basses, 2 tenors, 3 […]