Premium Action Item: Help Design a Tee

One of the things I want to open up to Supporters is a little more say in the direction of TGC, so here’s a golden opportunity. I designed this graphic after a fun little wordplay popped into my head that merged Laffy Taffy and LOTR. However, I just don’t know which...
In Memoriam

In Memoriam

The life of our family was forever changed on May 26, 2020. Expecting the birth of our 6th child mere hours after a marathon of early morning intrauterine hiccups, we arrived at the hospital only to find that our sweet Margaret Clare’s heart had failed her. Her almond...
A Brief History of Thy Geekdom Come

A Brief History of Thy Geekdom Come

A long, long time ago, on a blog far away, a Catholic writer wrestled between the urge to stay relevant with sneers and jeers toward his fellow Catholics and the good humor of the Holy Gospel. Briefly a “public Catholic” with my face beside a byline on New Advent...
In Memoriam

In Praise of Our Lady of Lourdes

June 7, 2012 was a difficult day for us. My wife gets morning sickness pretty early in pregnancy and we’ve known as early as a week or so after conception when she’s with child, so we had known for several weeks at this point that our third little bean was on the way....