By Gary Topping– (Editor’s note: It’s lake monster week on The Boy Monk blog. On Monday, Mike O’Brien blogged about his admiration for an 1868 report about the Bear Lake…
Posts published in July 2020
(Editor’s note: Yesterday Mike O’Brien wrote about his admiration for Joseph Rich’s 152 year old report on the Bear Lake monster (see: https://theboymonk.com/my-152-years-of-never-seeing-the-bear-lake-monster/). Today, the original Rich letter from the…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– My family loves me, but never hesitates to remind me about my many defects. A commonly-discussed flaw is my innate inability to spot most of the…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I often have thought it might be cool to live in a named era…maybe something like the Age of Aquarius, the Roaring Twenties, or La Belle…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Years ago, I watched the 1939 movie version of Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I was entranced when Quasimodo (Charles Laughton) flew into the Cathedral square,…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I knew the Utah Trappist monks who lived at the monastery in Huntsville until 2017 quite well. Yet, despite those years of friendship, I understood little…