Welcome to a page of promises and not much follow through.  As those who know me, family is important to me and everything else comes after. The web as a hobby allows me to post information for my courses, pictures for family and a few items of intellectual interest.

“We must remind ourselves, to begin, that culture arises from the cult: out of the religious bond and the sense of the sacred grow any civilization's agriculture, its common defense, its orderly towns, its ingenious architecture, its literature, its music, its visual arts, its law, its political structure, its educational apparatus, and its mores.” -Russell Kirk

“SOUP is Southerners and Others United to Preserve the Union in Repayment of an old Debt to the Yankees Who Saved It Once Before and are Destroying It Now.” -Walker Percy

“The pilgrims rose early on Sunday, went in buses and cars to the foot of Mount Coom, five miles from the village. There, they ascended the mountain, on foot, to kneel on muddied grassy slopes, or on shelves of rock, often in the unyielding Irish rain. Most could see the Mass rock and the priest only from a distance, but all heard the Latin thundering from the loudspeakers rigged up by the townsfolk. Latin. The communion bell. Monks as altar boys saying the Latin responses. Incense. The old way.” -Brian Moore

Q: What are the four last things to be ever remembered?

A: The four last things to be ever remembered are Death, Judgement, Hell, and Heaven.

                                                                                                                -The Penny Catechism

“Do you like the novel Dead Souls? I like Tolstoy too but Gogol is necessary along with the light.”  -Flannery O’Connor