Christian Pipe Smokers

I've got two trees older than me on the struggle bus---a Meyer Lemon I've posted about, and a Quince. The County Ag agent hasn't gotten back to me with the test results so I can assume it's not the China virus that's killing the Meyer, so the folks at the ACE suggested a systemic insecticide. Since ...

coco wrote: 26 Apr 2025, 12:17 What about Robert Sarah?

I think Sarah would be a good bet!

Through the magic of my laptop, I just zapped three overdue book reviews to my editor.
It feels good getting back to writing.

Since he's still overseas, I got my son's hammered 2017 Yaris smogged this morning. Surprisingly, it passed.

Back before that last woolly mammoth slid into the tar pits, Mac Barens tins and pouches were well represented on the shelves of Thrifty Drugstores around here.

I did smoke MacBarens long ago, he Latakia Blend, which Rusty didn't recognize as a real Latakia Blend, however the coins added to my pipe puffing education.
A pipe puffing compadre in the youth loved Plum Cake. Sutliff never did fare well with me, their flagship Mixture 79 struck me as being a ...

Here's the latest essay from Anthony Esolen in The Catholic Thing:

Worshiping the Clock and the Calendar
Anthony Esolen


The eternal does not “develop.” That is a contradiction in terms. So says our Lord, in the days before his Passion, when he spoke to his disciples of the last days and the ...