So yesterday Calvsie posted something to regarding the definition of "Swank." He, of course, had focused on the negative definitions of the word -- when anyone looking at the context could clearly see I was using it in one of

When I woke up this morning it was snowing - which is a bit strange for mid-October. I planned to ponder its significance here in my blog when I got to work (as I get to work a half hour

Pope Benedict XVI canonized five new saints Sunday, including Jozef De Veuster (1840-1889), a 19th century priest more commonly known as Father Damien. St. Damien worked with ostracized leprosy patients on Molokai, an isolated Hawaiian island, until he contracted the