Pensees. Blaise Pascal tried it first in the 17th century. Well… I’m no Pascal (I’m really bad at math); however, I have read some of this thoughts and found them, well, thought-provoking. He never published the book he was working on, but his friends discovered his notes, numbered them, and published them under the title “Pensees” which means “thoughts.”

Oddly enough, I’ve actually had a couple of people who have expressed a passing interest in a few of my thoughts. For those of you who may be desperate enough or have time enough to kill to care about what I have to say, welcome. From time to time I’ll publish some of my thoughts here and I invite anyone to comment as long as we keep things kind and thoughtful (see what I did there?). Civil discourse is a wonderful thing. I can’t promise that I’ll engage in long threads all the time as I have to keep my day job and family is a pretty high priority too.

My interests regarding this blog: philosophy, art, religion and how these things intersect with everyday living.

Who am I? I am a child of God, husband of a wonderful woman (going on 28 years at the time of writing), father of four, high school English teacher. The rest will be disseminated  through my writing.

And so begins my blog.