Perpetual Adoration

Hammerheads, Bricks & Challengers

admin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:32:55 +0000

A few months ago in an article entitled Ambushed By My Cousin, I told you about how I promised a cousin of mine that I would write about what I thought parents should be doing to raise their boys into decent, honorable, and respectable Catholic men. In the Ambushed article, I talked about the men on both sides of my parents’ families – the Williams men and the LaHood men.

When I was in high school [...] Read More »

Your Very Own Miracle Worker

admin — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:04:21 +0000

Imagine you’re trapped on the 19th floor of a burning building and you have no way of communicating with anyone. Your only way out of the building is through a window. You look out the window toward the ground and all you can see is a concrete sidewalk and street.

Are you going to open the window and jump, or are you going to stay where you’re at knowing that you will perish in the fire?

What [...] Read More »

The Perfect BFF

admin — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:58:29 +0000

A few months ago my son’s girlfriend joined our family for dinner at our home. During dinner, she made a couple of comments about her “BFF.” The comments were made in the context of “I told my BFF about…” and “Then my BFF said…”

Everyone around the table appeared to understand what she was talking about except for me. I finally asked her, “What does BFF mean?” Her response was, “Oh, BFF means my ‘best friend [...] Read More »

An Invisible Friend

admin — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:29:07 +0000

About a year after Georgette and I got married, she started calling me Houdini (after the great magician, Harry Houdini). She claimed that every time there was work to be done around the house, I would disappear. Unfortunately for her, I liked being compared to Houdini, and considered it to be a great compliment. If she had asked my mom before we got married, my mom would have told her that I was really good [...] Read More »

The Definition of Marriage

admin — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 23:00:37 +0000

The Pocket Catholic Dictionary defines “marriage” as follows:

As a natural institution, the lasting union of a man and a woman who agree to give and receive rights over each other for the performance of the act of generation and for the fostering of their mutual love.

The state of marriage implies four chief conditions: (1) there must be a union of opposite sexes; it is therefore opposed to all forms of unnatural, homosexual behavior; (2) it [...] Read More »

Mad Dirty Impure Men

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:30:58 +0000

For the past couple of month, articles have been popping up all over the place talking about the upcoming fourth season of the “award winning” television show, Mad Men. The show has won numerous awards for its “historical authenticity” and “visual style,” including four Golden Globes and nine Emmys.

I didn’t know this until recently, but apparently the marketing departments for shows like Mad Men customarily send out, in advance, DVDs of the first 4 episodes [...] Read More »

A (Repaired) Heart Full of Gratitude

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:00:27 +0000

Last week I (Georgette) asked Harry if I could use the Adoration Letter to say “Thank You” to everyone for their prayers and support, and to share some of what I went through prior to my heart surgery. He told me that he thought it would be a good idea, and encouraged me to write this week’s article.

When the doctors at Mayo Clinic told me in January of 2009 that I needed heart surgery, my [...] Read More »

Lady Gaga Is NOT A Real “Lady”

admin — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:29:36 +0000

I have a rule that my teenage daughters are not allowed to download any songs from the Internet to play on their iPods until I’ve given my approval. Do you know what I call the wires that come out of an iPod and connect onto the small earphones that go into a teenager’s ears? Pipelines. Here’s what travels through those pipelines: (1) sewage that is pumped directly into our children’s brains (and imaginations) that will [...] Read More »

A Very Important Person

admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 04:37:30 +0000

I’ve been paying some attention to what’s been going on in the Rod Blagojevich trial in Chicago. There really haven’t been any big surprises, except for the testimony from a government analyst who provided detailed evidence of the clothing purchases of Blagojevich and his wife during the time he was the governor of Illinois.

Apparently, over a period of six years, Blagojevich and his wife purchased over $400,000 in clothing – just for themselves! Despite the [...] Read More »

The First Independence Day

admin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:00:24 +0000

Last Monday morning while I was driving to the office, I turned on the radio to listen to the morning news. The big story of the day was the death of Robert Byrd, the record holder for longevity in the United States Senate. Byrd died at the age of 92, and was a senator for the state of West Virginia for 51 years.

I’m 53 years old, so Byrd won his first election to the senate [...] Read More »