Beers at the Nifty

Is random really random? Is there free will – or just fate? Two questions bitterly dividing our family for decades.

Every Saturday in December, we will share a Beers at the Nifty “Christmas classic”. Today’s post originally ran 2/21/2021 –

Doc, give me some advice I can follow! My Captor and I had our annual physicals recently – for ‘old

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