Portfolio
Layout and Typesetting
For samples of my layout, design, and typesetting work, please see my portfolio at Wineskin Media. You’ll find book covers, typeset book pages, and links to web sites I've designed.
Art
On this site, you can see several children’s illustrations which appeared in workbooks by Seton Press.
Writing
Understandably, I can’t put all my work online. Upon request, I’ll be happy to send you private copies of the following pieces:
Is There a Hobo in Your Attic?
(Bibliophilos Magazine).The Case of the Missing Binoculars
(Reading-Thinking Skills 6, Seton Press)
Nevertheless, while almost everything on this site is my own work, here are a few of my polished pieces:
Reviews and Criticism
The Complicity of Jobs
By limiting ourselves to scientific language, scientific reasons to save
the planet, we destroy the concept of reverence for nature. White explicitly
hearkens back to religious traditions, Christian dogma, even Thomas Aquinas,
finding there a reverence for what is that’s missing today as much
from the Sierra Club as from Silicon Valley. So what can we do? Wrong question.
What are we doing?
An apple for Ms. Cavatica?
Seen in this light, the story features a rather narcissistic but
mysteriously adorable young child whose only friends, really, are his
teacher and her descendants (replenished yearly). All his love,
respect, and devotion are for the Cavatica clan alone.
Essays
Whose Bod Is It Anyway?
On the other hand, maybe I thought also of my wife. She gives up her
body for our daughter. Pregancy, birth, nursing plenty of joys, but
also plenty of pain and aggravation. And plenty of time.
Procreation: The Neglected Superpower
You’re not listening. I told you. My wife and I can make new people.
I’m hatin’ it!
On one side of the billboard, occupying literally half the billboard, is a
giant Egg OMuffin. Again, Im veiling the actual name of this product, but to
help you visualize it Ill say that it apparently consists of two muffins,
lightly toasted, each about twenty feet wide.
Hannity: Critique Not, Lest Ye Be Critiqued
Suppose I said I was Muslim. We progressive Muslims, I might say, actually
reverence Jesus more than we do Muhammad. Further, we have a special veneration
for St. Thomas Aquinas. And we’re encouraged to go to Confession at least once
a month. To a Catholic priest. Now, in proposing these fascinating ideas, I
might be right or I might be wrong. But would I be Muslim? A progressive
Muslim? Any kind of Muslim?
Christ in the Utility Closet
And countless choirs of angels would appear, not to the Pope, or even
to the local bishop, but to a few greasy oil-change mechanics in their
shop, just finishing up on an old station wagon
Satire
You can see more of my satire and commentary at speroforum.com or The Fabricated Press.Annual convocation of hypocrites opens
Kindred spirits find support, hypocrisy at Annual Convocation of Hypocrites
Vitamin C now requires a prescription
“And that includes those risky oranges,” explain anonymous doctors
Online dating now officially safe
Would-be murderers can’t bear to click, “I’m good”
The Milwaukee First Church of Mammon
Find fellowship on the path to True Wealth
Television fundraiser ends in fistfight
Operators standing by flee in terror, laugh
Teens
Something To Talk About Besides Girls
Youll notice that Books werent high on our list. Theyre deep in
Everything Else, somewhere between Sports and Toe Cheese. (Listen
Magazine, 2004 October)
Children
Bill Powell on abcteach.com
With over eighty lessons on abcteach.com, and
titles like How To Argue Without Cheating
and Flory’s
Gulp
, how can you go wrong?
How To Talk To A Rock
Of course, if you tell everyone youre going to go talk to a rock, some
folks will say things like, But rocks dont talk! or Are you feeling
okay? or Rocks are only good for eating! Dont worry. Theyre wrong.
Rocks can talk.
Phonics K Story Sentences
I want jam on my bread.
You want Jim on the bread?
No, I want jam.
Is it a ham you want?
Stop! I just want jam!
(Phonics K, Seton Press)
Scripts: Radio/TV
Preview for “Hotel Horror”
INT. HALLWAY, NEAR VENDING MACHINE
MEL gets a drink from machine. MARK stands there.
On drink is a paper reading, “Melchizidek, you are going to die.”
MARK: Must be some other Melchizidek.
(Produced 1999.)
One Foot Can Make A Difference
AGAPE: Whats the matter, buddy? You look sad.
STINKY: I always look sad.
AGAPE: Thats cause your face is drawn on.
(Finalist, 2001 Christopher Video Contest)
The Catholic Perspective
The only show that gives you the TRUE Catholic perspective on hot, contemporary
issues from the afterlife to pattern baldness-and everything in between!
(Produced 2000.)
Last updated: 2008 Apr 23 19:55
