“There’s more to sports than winning.” “It’s not about winning and losing.” “Winning isn’t the most important thing.”

Those types of platitudes surround sports today, especially youth sports. And I have to admit:

I don’t understand them.

If you’re playing…

Appalachian State versus the University of Michigan. A small college from the hills of North Carolina against my colossal alma mater in Ann Arbor, the school with the winningest record in NCAA football history and ranked fifth in the nation.…

I work in the office with a guy named "Rob." We're the same age and had a lot of the same experiences growing up: listened to the same music, watched the same Detroit Lions teams, saw the same blockbuster movies…

William Burroughs liked opium, a lot. He liked its derivatives, morphine and heroin. He liked other types of dope. He liked women. He liked men and boys. He wrote recklessly. He lived recklessly. He loved his common law wife. He…

Sometimes I'm Gothic. Other times, Tudor-ish. In the morning I might be Romanesque, but by the afternoon I'm Bauhaus.

The architecture of my mind changes day-to-day, hour-to-hour, sometimes minute-to-minute. As a good Catholic, I generally want to live a life…

I am glutton and gluttony is me.

I know, gluttony is one of the deadly sins. Gluttony and its sibling sins (lust, avarice, watching Jerry Springer) lead to other sins.

But that didn't stop me when my parents handed down…

Two ancient spiritual tools combined into one new digital project.

It's Global Fast 2007, and it's encouraging people to fast and give alms. The goal: to change the world by getting 10,000,000 people to give up their food for one…

In a manner reminiscent of Jeff Foxworthy's "You Might be a Redneck if…" I've come up with my own list.

You might want to reassess your Catholicism if:

You think the Rosary is a cute thing that old ladies do.…

Anyone else follow the Russian spy poisoning case last week? It fascinates me, but only in a harnessed way. I entertain two assumptions:

1. There's a lot of James Bond stuff that Joe Public never hears about. How much? I…

I think it started with the census.

In the category "Religion," people wrote "Jedi." It was humorous, but then a few newly-proclaimed Jedis decided to take it seriously and start a Jedi religion. Last week, two of them, along with…