I have the wonderful task of teaching the faith in a Catholic Elementary School. Today I had the blessing of spending time with some Kindergarden kiddos. The first day I taught them, I asked them what they wanted to be. One of them said "A Power Ranger" and I thought how cute. Well, that came back to me today, as I was talking about Jesus' ( Read more... )

As of late, there have been two projects that have been taking up most of my thought energy. The first one is a software project that for the moment precludes my thinking about philosophical topics. However, the purpose of the software is to enable me to better store my thoughts on such things and be able to recall them with greater ease ( Read more... )

Well, I have now connected into the wireless here at the school. The WEP password was the last piece of information I needed, and it turned out to be **********. Just in case anyone is in the Saint John the Baptist area, the SSID is ( Read more... )

Three weeks ago, I had the opportunity to see Nunsense at the cobblestone theater. My friend, who I shall refer to as "nerkus" works there, and got me a ticket. The food was excellent, the set, costumes and acting were all superb, but the play as a whole was lacking ( Read more... )

Well, this isn't on the list of entries that I have promised. However, this is a meditation that has come up several times in the last few days, so I figured that it would be good to post while I have a chance ( Read more... )

Well, I have made the trip to St. Louis safe and sound. I am well, except for the fact that my only "reliable" internet connection is a windows 98 box with AOL dialup. I put reliable in quotes because I don't know how reliable it is. Anyway, I have promised some postings to the blog about the following topics ( Read more... )

Well, as I was crossing Kansas solo, there wasn't a whole lot to do, except listen to music, and to pray ( Read more... )

This morning, at 6:20 AM, MST, I left my parent's place to embark on the third greatest adventure of my life to date. As life would have it, my formational path is taking me through St. Louis, as I have been assigned to a parish there. Anyway, phase one was to drive all the way across Kansas, to Kansas City, Missouri, where a friend of mine, ( Read more... )

Last night, I saw the movie Pulse, and like most things, it has put me in a reflective mood. There were many things I noticed about the movie, for example, there was a lot of sound that falls outside the typical range of the human voice, and the colors used were heavy in the greens, which made for an eerie surreal experience. So, there was quite ( Read more... )

This past week I was on vacation, and sadly, I was unable to attend daily Mass at all for the week. Five days without going to Mass was the longest I have gone in two years, and its not something I particularly want to repeat ( Read more... )