Personal stuff

You hear it again and again: Forgiveness is one of the important pillars of human wisdom and even human happiness. Such talk is easy to discount if you’ve never had any real challenges before, and quite frankly I never really believed in the power of forgiveness until fairly recently. Last June, on the Monday...

About two weeks ago, I tried to update the apps on my iPhone. I got an error message that said the update failed because my “account had been disabled.” Great. The Apple support site offered little help. There was no way to talk to anyone about this problem, and the discussion forums just directed...

This post is more or less a “message in a bottle”. Over the last year or so, I have been searching for groups or individuals in the San Antonio, Texas area who might be interested in starting a project to launch a Roman Catholic “classical education” college in the San Antonio area. A classical...

This advice is intended for anyone interested in pursuing graduate education (toward the Ph.D.) on a full-time basis, not for part-timers or weekend scholars. Also, my graduate education was in the sciences, so some of what I say may not apply to someone in, say, management or the humanities. 1. Maintain a positive attitude...

After a couple of years of trying to figure out just what the hell is wrong with me, I’ve finally determined that I am going through a midlife crisis. It seems this is the normal course of action for guys my age, to quite suddenly hit a stage in life where you question what...

I just received a DuelAdapter for use with my splendid new Lenovo S10 IdeaPad. The DuelAdapter (http://www.duel-systemsadapters.com/) is a device that is supposed to allow you to use older PCMCIA cards in the newer ExpressCard slots featured on new laptops such as the Lenovo S10. I have an AT&T cellular modem card that I...

My 7 year old son is taking part in his Christmas pageant this evening at his school. He’s dressed as a little angel and of course looks adorable.

It looks like it is time for my wife and I to deal with aging parents. Her dad has COPD, and is slowly deteriorating to the point where he’s having trouble working and taking care of himself. We’re going to work with my sis-in-law to start planning out what to do. He’s a very...

On the weekend before last, I spent a wonderful three days on a spiritual retreat at the Montserrat Jesuit Retreat Center on Lake Dallas, TX. The retreat was a men’s retreat for Advent. It was the second time I had been to Montserrat, and I have to say it was the most wonderful retreat...

OK, so I’ve changed the name of my blog, and I am going to try and be a little more personal, trying to expand my horizons and writing topics, so to speak.