I’ve turned my “About Me” page into several shorter pages, arranged hierarchically:
- About Me
Not “Typical:” Whatever That Is.
I’m not your typical Catholic blogger.
This isn’t your typical Catholic blog.
I’m not sure what a typical Catholic blogger and the blogger’s blog would be.
Ask five folks to describe a “typical” Catholic blog, and you may get six answers.
I searched [typical Catholic blog] in two search engines, Google and DuckDuckGo, and found very different results.
Google Search showed me links to blogs by “Regular Catholic Individuals” and folks who may not approve of Vatican II.
The other one displayed an assortment of stuff written by folks who sound like Catholics I know. They’re not quite like me, which is hardly surprising.
Not quite a dozen years back now (2024), number-two daughter and son-in-law were jumping through bureaucratic hoops in their effort to adopt a particular infant.
How My Second-Oldest Daughter Described Me
Among many other tasks, they were told to describe, in three words, the prospective adopters’ parents. Which arguably makes sense. The point is that I was impressed, relieved, and pleased that number-two daughter’s three-word description of me didn’t cause trouble.
She said, quite accurately, that I was:
- Eccentric
- Scholarly
- Eclectic
Maybe the second word wasn’t “scholarly”, but it was a synonym. And that’s another topic. Several, actually.
(Brian H. Gill (text May, 2010; revised June 2020; revised December 2024))
