Beers at the Nifty

Every Saturday in December, we will share a Beers at the Nifty “Christmas classic”. Today’s post originally ran 12/15/2021, to

‘Keening’: Irish for ‘Wailing in grief for the dead, often a poetic graveside ritual ‘ … A long, long time

Every Saturday in December, we will share a Beers at the Nifty “Christmas classic”. Today’s post originally ran 12/25/2020 –

… Any resemblance to our houseguests – past or present – is purely coincidental… House guests. Can’t live with ‘em,

Thanksgiving used to be so easy, so relaxing – my favorite holiday. But then ‘correctness’ struck, and things got complicated…

Is virtue untested virtue at all? Our Catechism teaching the virtuous are ‘morally good’ – which somehow can only be

Reality intrudes. But reality also envelops us, and where I ‘should be living my life’, as Sr. Mary Gump told

Today we thank veterans for their service – something we should do more often, but a start…   My Father

We take a lot for granted.   Part being lucky enough to live in America, part plain old humanness. Watching

“Where have you gone Tight End Bowers? The Peach State turns its lonely eyes to you…” (With apologies to Simon