"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
Under the patronage of St. Tammany
Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Now, then: What to give up for Lent? Tobacco probably ought to go.
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Fridays in my early years often meant Gorton's fish cakes, which I never particularly liked, and which have been replaced on the market by a surfeit of kid-friendly fish sticks and fish fillets, for which today's children should be grateful.
Gorton's still offers a recipe for codfish cakes, for those so inclined.
Given his Mesoamerican take on Ash Wednesday, missalette clip artist Bro. Steve Erspamer should be expecting commissions any day now from liturgists at the local Mayan Jaguar God Faith Community.
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