Educational
Catholic Curiosities
The other day I picked up a pamphlet about a Novena to St. Jude in the back pew of Church. To those who work for the Church this is a regular occurance. It’s a sort of chain-letter kind of thing: Make this Novena to St. Jude Publish in a newspaper the results OR leave a [...]
LOBSTERS
Most of my friends know that I enjoy gourmet cooking, and that my wife and I love to travel. In fact, my wife was a travel agent when we were first married, which facilitated lots of wonderful trips that we would not have been able to take otherwise. What’s the best way to combine these [...]
Labor Day?
Today is a holiday that honors the “working man.” At least that’s what was envisioned when the first Labor Day was celebrated in New York City in 1882. But maybe today we should call it Consumerism Day or Materialism Day or Best-Day-for-a-Car-Sale Day. Because it’s focus seems to have somehow morphed into a day for [...]
Dark meat, white meat?
I am roasting a turkey breast for dinner this evening, which got me thinking, “what is it that makes the dark meat dark?” Or, for that matter, the white meat white? Turns out that the more active muscles in a bird need more oxygen. The highly active muscles are filled with blood vessels that contain [...]
Why I won’t make Principal anytime soon . . .
One of the main projects I’ve been working on at St. Gerald has been an expansion of our school to accommodate 7th & 8th grade students. Because of the construction occurring, we pushed back the beginning of school until after Labor Day. The local public schools began classes this Monday, August 15th. As in the [...]
Bullying
A good number of those reading this post have at some time been the target of a bully. Many readers have likely bullied others themselves. And I would venture a guess, that everyone has been a bystander when someone near you has been bullied. It’s a prevalent problem in our country, and has been for [...]
Monotreme Extraordinaire!
Monotremes are the most primitive mammals – or so scientists tell us. The word monotreme means “one-holed,” which describes the cloaca that this odd group exhibits. That just means that they have a single hole that serves the urinary tract, anus and reproductive tract. I say, yada, yada, yada . . . Who cares about [...]