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Man of the Household Goal: to be the man of my household, a true husband and father, taking first responsibility for crafting the good life in my home, and so fulfilling what nature calls me to and my heart longs for, and my loved ones need and deserve. I seek to make my household a vibrant center of life, where my wife can live out her genius as wife and mother, youth are formed to maturity, all experience a place of love and belonging, and our household rightly serves society and the Church.
Facing an Anti-Family Economy
Economic demands often work against your being a man in your household. There is a plan for manhood you can discover and execute starting at home.
Responding to the Dominant Culture
Strong cultural pressures both pull you away from home and invade your life there. You can take responsibility and thrive.
Overcoming the Feeling of Powerlessness
Confused and isolated, sometimes you don’t know where to turn. You can become the man you know you can be.
Featured Posts:
Marital Conversation
“Is there anyone to whom you speak less than to your wife?” Socrates, in Xenophon’s The Estate Manager Thomas Aquinas suggests that spouses ought to have the greatest of friendships. His central reason is that they share in the “whole course of daily life.” In...
Care for a Wife’s Health
“Seeing, then, that such care is lavished on the body’s food, surely every care should be taken on behalf of our own children’s mother and nurse, in whom is implanted the seed from which there springs a living soul.” Aristotle, Economics Aristotle is reflecting upon...
A Husband in Winter
“At the very moment when the vine has shed Its latest leaves and the cold north wind has shaken The glory from the woods, at that same moment The lively husbandman projects his thoughts Into the coming year…” Virgil, The Georgics, II, 403-406 A husband in a family is...
Recent Posts:
Playing Alone
When I was down beside the sea A wooden spade they gave to me To dig the sandy shore. Robert Louis Stevenson, At the Sea-Side A Child's Garden of Verses There is nothing quite like playing alone. To watch it is a privilege. Indeed, in watching one might even...
In Praise of Spring Cleaning
“Let’s decide on the appropriate place for everything.... This will enable us to know which of our belongings are safe and sound, and which are not, because the place itself will cry out for anything that’s not there; our eyes will spot anything that needs attention;...
A Letter to a New Grandchild
"Perfect love sometimes doesn't come until the first grandchild." Welsh Proverb Dear David, I am your Mommy’s father. She calls me Daddy, and I hope that you will call me Granddaddy. It is hard to know where to begin in what I’d like to say to you. This past Saturday,...
Seeking Harmony in Our Home
“When cordially united, a father and sons, or a family of brothers and sisters, may, in almost any state of life, set what is called misfortune at defiance.” William Cobbett, The Cottage Economy VIDEO FOLLOWED BY DISTINCT WRITTEN REFLECTION: The other evening we sat...
Bethany Weekends: Spring, Summer Schedule
Socrates insisted on the centrality of examining our lives. The purpose of such examination is clear: we will come closer to being the persons we can be if we accept the challenge of our human identity, of being rational. This is our privilege: to use our reason to...
Saying No to Alexa
“Man is the only animal nature has endowed with the gift of speech.” Aristotle, Politics It is estimated that almost a quarter of American homes have a voice-enabled ‘smart speaker,’ and experts predict that over half of households will within a few years. The lion’s...
In Defense of New Year’s Resolutions
“For not to go only, but to enter there, was naught else but to will to go, but to will it resolutely and thoroughly; not to stagger and sway about this way and that, a changeable and half-wounded will, wrestling, with one part falling as another rose. The mind...
Eating Like a Human
“He ate just enough food to make eating a pleasure, and he was so ready for his food that he found appetite the best sauce.” “He resisted without difficulty the common temptation to exceed the limit of satiety; and he advised those who could not do likewise to avoid...
Keeping Traditional Observances
“...anyone who carelessly rejects the external traditions or treats them with irony is doing something dangerous.” Josef Pieper "Indeed, modern men, who lack such things, lack sustenance, and our fathers who founded all those ritual observances were very wise."...
Grandpa’s Stories at Thanksgiving
“So take refreshment, take your ease in hall, and cheer the time with stories. I’ll begin. Not that I think of naming, far less telling, every feat of that rugged man, Odysseus, but here is something that he dared to do…” Helen of Troy, in Homer, The Odyssey VIDEO,...
A House: A Permanent Monument
“A magnificent man will also furnish his house suitably to his wealth, for even a house is a sort of public ornament, and will spend by preference on those works that are lasting, for these are the most beautiful.” Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics At root wealth always...
Reclaiming the Household, Article in First Things
I am happy to share this article of mine, published in First Things, the November print edition, and HERE online. "Reclaiming the Household"