Catholic convert through the Ordinariate. Writer of good books; teacher of Great Books. Newsletter, podcast, & pilgrimages, too. Indifferent to the zeitgeist.
Georgetown, TX
Joined March 2008
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I completely believe it. When young parents ask me for early homeschooling advice, I tell them to start curating a good home library (used are great!) and keep it in the public spaces in the home. Then designate mandatory DEAR (drop everything and read) time once a day, where everyone reads for an hour.
If you do this, you’ll be 90% of the way there for the earlier years (and heck, even the adolescent years if you’ve built this into a habit).
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today, November 7, 2026, the shooting of President William McKinley is the exact halfway point of America's history as an independent nation. it happened 45,718 days ago, and 45,718 days after the Declaration of Independence was signed
Just found out my son and a group of his friends from my class were on Minecraft last night with a few other people, and they got to defending the existence of God citing Aquinas’ five ways, which they just read for class this week. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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If you're not listening to A Drink With a Friend, hosted by @tsh you must remedy that immediately! It's a wonderful show hosted by a wonderful person and I was thrilled to be back on the show today talking about meaningful books and places. Listen here:
thecommon.place/p/ep205
Halloween is the vigil of All Saints Day, similar to Christmas Eve, and “Halloween” is simply a contraction of All Hallows’ Eve (“hallows” means ‘holy ones’). It always falls on October 31 because it’s the vigil of All Saints, which always falls on November 1. Add All Souls Day the next day on November 2 (more on this below), and we get the three-day feast of Hallowtide.
I wish there was a way to tell the internet algorithm that you voted early already and to stop showing you incessant political ads.
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"Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years."
-Edmund Burke, "Reflections on the Revolution in France"
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Dear friends, during some recent medical examinations, the doctors found a small, localized nodule in my lung. It was detected at a very early stage and is well-localized. The doctors believe that it is best to intervene, so, following their advice, I have decided to undergo surgery to remove it. The operation is already scheduled to take place in the coming days. I thank you for your spiritual closeness and entrust myself to your prayers.
A happy feast day to one of the GOATs and one of my favorites, St. John Henry Cardinal Newman—who didn’t want to leave the Anglican Church and become Catholic, but couldn’t not once his conscience compelled him. …Man, did I feel that, too. I love him.
St. JHN, Doctor of the Church, ora pro nobis!
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"An Orphan & A European City"
A very different, very fun podcast episode today: @tsh and I talk about books, orphans, Parisian childhood, and martial arts. We discovered a thread in my choices...what a title!
I recommend two books and two places and...
Has anyone found any blue light-blocking reading glasses under $100?
As in, actual blue-light blocking (they look goofy and red or amber), and are also actual readers (around 1.25 magnification)?
Seems like if you need both, you're paying upwards of $125. Would love to find some lower-cost glasses.
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FINALLY got some updated author headshots... Only took about ten years.
(Serendipitously, the coveted best seat in my neighborhood coffee shop was wide open, and it's where I do most of my writing anyway.)
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my friends, it is time:
in conjunction with @avemariapress and a new book they released, i spent the last few months illustrating the entire structure of the summa theologica, by thomas aquinas.
in my shop here: owen-cyclops.myshopify.com/
can i show and tell you, in this thread:
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My supremely talented sister, the novelist @FaithKMoore, will be visiting me in Nashville on October 3 to celebrate the release of her new novel, Wooing Jane! It’s an actually non-cringe romance that all can enjoy. Come by @landmarkbookstn to join us!
landmarkbooksellers.com/even…
Homeschooling is going on a unicycle ride around the neighborhood so you can concentrate on listening to Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy.
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Honor Wendell Berry and make his memory part of your own by memorizing this poem with me.
We only truly know that which we hold inside ourselves.
From last summer:
