Category Archives: Series

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May 5, 2018: Pre-Brillig Writing Progress

My first serious try at writing a book started several years back, if you count thinking about how I’d do it and learning about ‘book length’ style and format conventions. Actual writing, entering and saving words, started about a month … Continue reading →

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Trust and Mercy

Divine Mercy Sunday: Acts 4:32–35 1 John 5:1–6 John 20:19–31 (April 8, 2018; this homily is from April 7, 2002) Divine Mercy Sunday, 2018 By Deacon Lawrence N. Kaas April 8, 2018 (originally April 7, 2002) 20 years ago we … Continue reading →

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Writing, a Raven and Pallas

Once upon an evening dreary, while I pondered, fogged and bleary, Over many a disconnected fragment of erratic text, While I dithered, nearly dozing, suddenly I started thinking: I should be sleeping! Sleeping more and brooding less might have done … Continue reading →

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In Conference, Out to Lunch, Gone Fishing, Whatever: I’m Taking a ‘Break’

(Meet Norbert Nerdly: my frustrations, personified.) My regularly-scheduled ‘Friday’ and ‘Sunday’ posts will, I trust, resume: eventually. Meanwhile, I will add something new to A Catholic Citizen in America. How often and when that will be depends on me getting … Continue reading →

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The Dream

He woke, heart racing, breathless, wet with sweat, in the starlit time before dawn. He shuddered when something touched his arm. It was his wife. “Again?” she asked, rolling her belly onto him. Soon she would bear his first child. … Continue reading →

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