Julie Robison is a great young blogger and she’ll be guest blogging here once a week over the next month. She blogs at Corner with a View so please check her out.…
“I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day…” So begins a poem, a lament really, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. To us Longfellow is a guy we read in a textbook in high school.…
This is pretty amazing. A paralympian, who has reportedly been paralyzed since 13 years of age, is out training as a hand cyclist when she crashes. The crash somehow cures her paralysis.…
So as you know, I occasionally write here at CMR about running and triathlon training. For me, endurance training has many connections to the spiritual life. As such, I like to write…
It’s time for the annual showing of one of the greatest Christmas specials of all time. This always cracks me up. CMR brother in law Pat Shay tells the second greatest Christmas…
Viability. Madeline Mann, former blob of tissue, was born weighing only 9.9 ounces. You read that right, a little over half of one pound. She weighed less than a burger at Applebees.…
There’s this strange image I’ve seen many times of George Washington on his knees Tebowing which is based on the journal entry of an 18th century Presbyterian Minister. But this is, of…
The Xavier-Cincinnati brawl on the basketball court was disgusting, made more so by the fact that a Catholic college was involved. This is disgusting. This is disgustinger. An Ohio prosecutor has said…
We’re not supposed to feel this way. We’re supposed to be the strong ones. Us men, we face facts, we see things as they are and we move on. Except I don’t…