Another Way of Thinking
When I was in high school, I played football and wrestled, and I wrote for the school newspaper. I enjoyed writing, and at one point was the News Editor. When I went to college I initially majored in journalism, but my experience there was that I didn’t fit in with the majority of people who wrote for the University newspaper. They didn’t think like me. Or was it that I didn’t think like them? Maybe I was naive, or just immature, but I interpreted this as meaning that my calling in life was elsewhere. So, I graduated, and joined the military after graduation, and gradually grew to understand just how different academia and journalism were from the rest of normal, traditional, American families. The military placed me in contact with other men like me, who read good books, which led to good conversations, and fed my desire to write. I found Gilbert Keith Chesterton, and read his works, and started practicing my faith more intentionally, and this too fed my thinking which, is writing. And since I now have seven children, and since the world has grown far narrower and more focused on efficiency for all the rewards of the world, I have decided to contribute my thoughts on family, faith, and all things simple in order to restore what might be a lost perspective. I’m not a professional writer, or academic, but a layman. A neighbor, a parishioner, but most importantly, a husband and father.
With all that in mind, I hope to build a community of thinkers who consider life broadly. Who value life, who value family, who want to lead their children to all that is good, true and beautiful. Who seek God, and who consider what he wants in all decision making for daily life.
Readers can expect to read my thoughts for free - I’m not a professional writer. This is a hobby, and I’m doing it for the pleasure of articulating and discovering what is True. I think I heard the philosopher Dr. Peter Kreeft say once that in some ways (I’m paraphrasing) a true philosopher is really an amateur. Well, I’m an amateur - I’m thinking, writing for the love of it! I plan to write at least once a week, I will post poems, and write essays on a multitude of topics that I think parents, especially fathers, would care about. This could all expand in the future, but for now, it is just a hobby.
