John Clark
February 1, 2010
4,973 Views
During the recent blizzard that befell the state of Virginia—a storm that dumped about three feet of snow on the little hamlet of Front Royal—our house lost electric power for ...
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John Clark
February 1, 2010
9,038 Views
Homeschool dad John Clark explains that catching up is a process, not an event. Sometimes taking time to explain the concepts makes a big difference.
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John Clark
January 1, 2010
6,077 Views
When I began my professional career, my schedule was a bit hectic. I would leave at 5:30AM, fight my way through traffic for about ninety minutes and arrive for work. ...
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John Clark
December 1, 2009
6,069 Views
Whether it comes in the persons of Odysseus and Penelope, Romeo and Juliet, or Jamal and Latika, from the ancient Greeks to modern times, every society has glamorized love stories. ...
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John Clark
November 1, 2009
5,628 Views
As I started thinking about what to write about this month, I kept drawing a blank. That is rare for me. It’s not as though nothing important has happened since ...
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John Clark
October 1, 2009
6,135 Views
As a former college baseball coach and a lover of the game, I am frequently guilty of reducing life’s greatest lessons to a series of baseball analogies. I often tell ...
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John Clark
September 1, 2009
5,845 Views
Pregnancy and summertime don’t mix. I’m sure I’m not the first one to point this out. It was probably a comment Eve made to Adam when carrying Cain: “Boy, this ...
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John Clark
August 1, 2009
9,046 Views
During a recent medical exam, my physician recommended that I cut coffee from my diet. Apparently, he considered my life exciting enough without the added caffeine stimulus. This was no ...
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John Clark
July 1, 2009
7,032 Views
When my oldest son Athanasius was about five years old, I observed him playing with his Star Wars toys, imagining a great battle of the good Jedi knights against “the ...
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John Clark
June 1, 2009
7,376 Views
As a father, one of my responsibilities is to help my children stay out of trouble. But as the years go by, I wonder if it is the other way ...
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John Clark
May 1, 2009
6,579 Views
For most of my adult life, I have had my most important conversations around breakfast time. This seems to point to one of two possibilities: first, the restful sleep from ...
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John Clark
April 1, 2009
6,239 Views
There are times when I consider myself so disorganized and discombobulated that I think that I must be the wrong person to write articles about the father’s role in home ...
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John Clark
March 1, 2009
6,254 Views
One morning a short while ago, I woke up before the rest of the family and started making myself breakfast. Roused from the smell of coffee, my five-year-old daughter Dominica ...
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John Clark
January 1, 2009
4,950 Views
Last month, I encouraged fathers to spend a little time meditating on the life of St. Joseph and asking him for help. This month, I’m encouraging you to deepen your ...
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John Clark
January 1, 2009
6,412 Views
January brings a promise of a new year, of a new chance, of remembrances and resolutions. So if you’re in the process of looking for resolutions as a Catholic father, ...
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John Clark
December 1, 2008
5,701 Views
Since the dawn of the home schooling movement in America, the question has been asked: “Can home schoolers compete academically with their brick-and-mortar counterparts?” Since every serious study has supported ...
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John Clark
November 1, 2008
6,611 Views
This monthly column is devoted to examining the role of the Catholic father, and how we fathers can better live our calling. Mostly, it has been about theory. This time, ...
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John Clark
September 1, 2008
7,317 Views
Fathers, you think you’ve have a bad day. Let me tell you what your wife’s day has been like. 8:47AM. The dog ran into the house and tracked mud on ...
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John Clark
August 1, 2008
4,951 Views
Because I have the worst directional sense of anyone I know, last summer I bought a global positioning satellite (GPS) receiver for my car. Now, I never get lost driving, ...
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John Clark
July 1, 2008
7,939 Views
As a home-schooling father of eight children, I have been asked to do a regular column on Catholic fatherhood in this newsletter, and specifically, Catholic fatherhood in the home schooling ...
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