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  • Creating Healthy Reading Habits in Our Age of Distraction

    Creating Healthy Reading Habits in Our Age of Distraction3

    Over the years, I have tried to implement well-balanced reading habits in my daily life. There have been times when I was convinced I could get by on the entertaining tales of Neil Gaiman and George Saunders. There have been other times when I held that the literati were supposed to stick to the highbrow

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  • Creating Habits in an Age of Distraction

    Creating Habits in an Age of Distraction0

    There’s no doubt that we are more distracted than ever in our age of screens. Everything from the latest news on social media to our favorite movie to online shopping is only a few clicks away. The cost, though, is not a light one: The productive and meaningful habits in our life are taking a

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  • Creating a Traditionalist Community

    Creating a Traditionalist Community0

    It’s easy to feel isolated these days. It’s especially lonely for those of us who are conservative, religious, or traditionalist persons. We don’t usually get to choose our social environments and find few (if any) true kindred spirits in our school and college years, or later in our careers. Social media seems to have replaced

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  • Crazy Hopes

    Crazy Hopes0

    A very interesting British man named Simon Parkes has become a YouTube phenomenon in just a few days following the events of the Capitol Hill riot on Jan. 6 and Trump’s apparent concession speech the following day. Parkes has told disappointed Trump supporters that he is in direct contact with “Q,” the shadowy figure supposedly

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  • Crazy = Thinking Student Loan Debt is a Path to Success?

    Crazy = Thinking Student Loan Debt is a Path to Success?0

    A Forbes article recently caught my eye by proclaiming that it is possible to retire in your 30s and travel the world. The article by Laura Begley Bloom went on to describe 33-year-old Anita Dhake, who is already enjoying retirement after spending a handful of years as a lawyer. Because many of us (myself included)

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  • Craxies and the Limits of Toleration

    Craxies and the Limits of Toleration0

    First, a note on my invented word: craxy. Like crayons in a box, some words in English exhibit a variety of shades and colors. Crazy is one of these, attracting synonyms like butterflies to milkweed. Call someone crazy, and we run the gamut from foolish to eccentric to fanatical, and end with psychotic. Consequently, context

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