Ozzie Guillen is an idiot. The manager of the Miami Marlins was interviewed by Time magazine for an online article, released last week. In the interview, Guillen—again, a baseball manager, not a foreign diplomat or spokesman—spoke about how he feels about Fidel Castro. “I respect Fidel Castro. You know why? A lot of people have [...]
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Saturday Ramblings 4.7.12
7 Apr by
Greetings one and all to the Easter edition of Saturday Ramblings. We have an Easter basket full of goodies for you. Jelly beans, malted milk balls, chocolate bunnies (you do eat their ears first, don’t you?) and licorice whips. We’ve also hidden among the plastic grass some other treats—chocolate-covered ramblings. Let’s dig in! Please remember [...]
Second Anniversary Of The Saddest Day
5 Apr by
April 5, 2010. A day that will forever be stuck in my heart as the day I lost the best friend I never met. I “discovered” Michael the same way most all of you did: Through his writings on this site. At the time I had been walking with the Lord for more than 35 [...]
Saturday Ramblings 3.31.12
31 Mar by
Saturday Ramblings is blah, blah, blah. You know the routine. Leftovers, etc. We have too much to cover today, so … shall we ramble? By the time you are reading this, Pope Benedict XVI will be resting back at home after his trip to Mexico and Cuba. While in Cuba the Pope met with Fidel [...]
Saturday Ramblings 3.24.12
24 Mar by
Welcome to the March Madness edition of Saturday Ramblings. I asked the Synonymous Rambler to take charge of the leftovers this week so I could focus on all of the Ohio teams still (as of this writing) in the tournament. But SR is also caught up in the madness of this third month of the [...]
Saturday Ramblings 3.17.12
17 Mar by
Top o’the morning, iMonks! Happy St. Paddy’s Day! Time for the wearin’ o’the green. Except for me. Red and khaki is still the color choice at Target. Besides, I’ve been battling a virus for nearly two weeks now. I am sporting my own shade of green these days. So it’s our special St. Patrick’s Day [...]
Quotes For Lent
15 Mar by
Lent 2012: A Journey through the Wilderness Quotes For Lent On one such occasion the Shepherd said to Much-Afraid, “When you continue your journey there may be much mist and cloud. Perhaps it may even seem as though everything you have seen here of the High Places was just a dream, or the work of [...]
Saturday Ramblings 3.10.11
10 Mar by
Greetings and salutations, fellow iMonks. It has been a week. So much going on, it’s been difficult to keep from adding a Thursday Ramblings just to help out. We will shoulder through best as we can. So strap in and get ready to ramble. You know, it’s always fun to go from not knowing a [...]
Music For Lent
8 Mar by
Lent 2012: A Journey through the Wilderness Music for lent As we journey through this Lenten season, we need some company for the road. I’d like to recommend some books and a movie or two. But this morning we’ll look at an album to keep us company in this time in the wilderness. First of [...]
Saturday Ramblings 3.3.2012
3 Mar by
Welcome fellow iMonks! It’s time for the weekly venture into the leftovers here at the iMonastery. We fix a lot of food during the week and try to give you hearty main dishes twice a day (if possible). But there are some things we just don’t get around to, so we gather them all up [...]
