My mom sent me this link this morning and I thought I’d share it with you.
It focuses on a Southern tradition of providing food for people in need, and the battle of the sexes in the grocery store. 

Just heard on Today: “No one ever forgets the Oscar dresses.”
Sorry to break it to them, but I do. I barely pay attention to them on the rare occasions I do watch. If I’m going to watch the red carpet foolishness, my eyes are more likely to be on the ladies in them than the clothing itself, unless …

Someone please tell me this is some kind of sick joke!
Former Governor Sarah Palin is reportedly trying to find a network to carry a reality show about life in Alaska, according to the Hollywood Reporter. 

One week ago today, employees at Catholic Charities were told that the organization will no longer offer benefits to spouses of new employees or to spouses of current employees who are not already enrolled in the plan.
It was to take effect Tuesday, a day before same-sex marriage became legal in Washington, D.C.
The sudden move, and resulting lack of notice, stems …

I decided to temporarily redecorate the blog in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. It’ll go back to its normal garnet after the 17th, but I don’t think the green looks all that bad if I do say so myself.
When your first name is Patrick, it’s hard to ignore St. Patrick’s Day. It’s just sort of expected that you’re …

Do you use categories and/or tags on your blog? If you do, there are a lot of stats-keeping programs that can help you trace which ones are getting the most hits with your readers based on which category pages rank highest among the most-viewed pages.
I’ve got quite a list of categories that I use on this blog. It …

Almost three years ago, I registered the domain where you’re reading this blog. Prior to that time, Patrick’s Place existed on Blogger, having moved a couple of years before that from AOL.
Ever since relocating to this domain, I added a piece of code to the top of the HTML for the Blogger site that automatically redirected people to this …

How are you when it comes to helping people? Are you the kind of person who pitches in when a need is first mentioned or do you tend to step back and think of additional ways you can help?
Or, do you ignore chances to help and focus only on yourself? (Don’t answer that.)
Helping hands are the topic of …

Any time a major disaster happens, many people ponder what it would have been like if they had gone through the terrible misfortune they see victims going through. For many believers, they also consider whether the tragedy is a reminder that the Biblical end times are that much closer.
A friend of mine from church sent an email yesterday that …

It’s been a short while since I checked the top keywords that led people to this site, so I thought I’d have another look. For the first time in quite a while, the search phrase “mental feng shui” didn’t make the top 10. (This time, it was actually 14.)
Anyway, here’s the list with a few pertinent annotations as …

If there were ever a day you would think I’d be celebrating full throttle, it would be National Grammar Day, which happens to be today, March 4th.
Somehow, I’ve managed to completely miss the fact that such a day existed. In fact, over the years, I have become more and more convinced that it would never occur to a growing …

The other day, my mom and I were talking about my last flight out to visit my friends in California. She joked that she’d like to have Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the famous US Airways pilot who prevented disaster by successfully landing in New York’s Hudson River last year, in the cockpit if she had to get on a plane.
It …

The Postal Service, citing continued economic shortfalls, is considering a plan to end mail delivery on Saturdays.
Postmaster General John Potter told USA Today that cutting service was unavoidable if the organization is ever to move back into the black:
“We know we’re going to have less mail in 2020 than we have today. We can’t freeze wages. We can’t freeze …

I had to chuckle at a bit during David Letterman’s monologue Tuesday night which he called “CBS Affiliates Do’s and Don’t’s.”

If you like to cuss, California might be a bad place for you this week. That’s because the state Assembly there has approved a resolution establishing this week as “Cuss Free Week.”
No, really.  It’s true!

A cancer patient is being denied potentially life-saving treatment because of strict anti-abortion laws. This is happening in Nicaragua, where laws against abortion are among the world’s most restrictive.
Because the cancer drugs could harm the fetus, doctors are not able to do anything to help the 27-year-old patient who doctors think will certainly die if not treated. A …

I can’t let this day close without mention of some dear good friends in the Bay Area of California. South Bay Church celebrated its first anniversary this morning, and 319 people attended.
That’s a new record for this church.
I’ve had the privilege of being part of this church during a few visits, and one of my best friends, Archie, is …

A recent promo required the use of piggy banks as a visual metaphor of people donating to political campaigns. Though I haven’t shopped for a traditional piggy bank in quite a while — what I save, I save in a bank account — I didn’t think it would be that difficult to find one.
I was wrong.