“Saying grace with a full and sincere heart sanctifies the whole smorgasbord, even it is the kind you find in a cheap restaurant, and even if there is enough MSG in the pans there to make your spoon taste pretty good” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 153).
Creed of a Happy Warrior
Introduction: A friend recently asked me for my thoughts on what it means to be a happy warrior. His take was that I was one, and wanted my views on what goes into it. I thought the assessment was fair enough, but I had not really put the question to myself in those terms, and …
People Like to Cluster
“To want everyone to live close to the land is to want a human race that God, for some reason, decided not to create” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 149).
And So the Letters Keep Coming . . .
Gaslighting is a Thing: I’d encourage you to avoid liberal categories like gaslighting. It definitely might happen, but which is more likely in our culture — a woman genuinely being manipulated, or one who just has a problem submitting? Dan Dan, well, actually, I have seen plenty of both. Gaslighting is a thing, and if …
Or So It Seems to Me
“It doesn’t make sense to move from one end of the pool to the other because you are tired of being wet” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 146).
On a Wife Deciding to Leave Her Husband
Dear Janelle, I received your letter yesterday, and had already heard from your brother and sister-in-law. They confirmed for me the very difficult and challenging situation you are in with your husband, and they said that they had encouraged you to write to me with your question. I was glad to hear from you. From …
The Facebook Penalty Box
I am posting an article below by Robert Gagnon. I am posting it here because Facebook removed it earlier when Gagnon posted it, and suspended him for a day. Having posted it here, I will send it out to Twitter and Facebook, and would encourage you all to share it all over the place. Incidentally, …
And Now for a Radical Concept
“I believe that a free people should be able to grow, harvest, sell, truck, shelve, freeze, process, buy, cook, or savor whatever [food] they please, just so long as they do it on their own dime” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 146).
An Important Point in There
No, Wait
“The coming ice age is coming, the globe is warming, and the science is settled, no, wait. Turns out the globe got so hot it cooked the books” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 143).