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Hitchens, Stegner, Mortality, and Moderns.

28-Nov-12

Aurogra 1 mg for sale usa Sickness very much getting the better of me in the days following Thanksgiving, I spent three days indoors and very nearly all the time in bed. Having a great number of books at my disposal, being in the family house, for whatever inscrutable reason I read Christopher Hitchens’ Mortality on Friday, and Wallace Stegner’s Crossing […]

The Deeper Meaning of Parenting.

07-May-10

http://smragan.com/2012/02/18/bike-rack-shaped-like-a-bike/ One of the questions that has most been with me the past two years is this: If I had a son or daughter, would I have anything to really teach them?  Would I have gathered from my years on earth some kind of life-wisdom to pass on to them?  Or would all my knowledge be […]

Humor and Proportion.

15-Jan-10

I was speaking to a friend recently, in the presence of his wise wife, and the topic of conversation turned to the successes or failures of our high school education.  We went to the same Jesuit school, and complaining about Jesuits is a traditional theme for learned conversation.  My friend lambasted the education he received.  […]