[+]Aaroneous Monk[+]

*** On this fourth day of Christmas our almost three year old was playing with her favorite Christmas present, a Sesame Street playdoh co...

Poppyseed has discovered classic children's poems and songs on her mother's iPhone. For the past several days I have found her lis...

Untitled , a photo by []Aaroneous Monk[] on Flickr. *** It's raining in December Ol' Roy hangs on our tree these past t...

St. Elias , a photo by []Aaroneous Monk[] on Flickr. *** My son lies in a darkened room the lights out sleeping as I stand over h...

Watching the Mud Dry #1 , a photo by []Aaroneous Monk[] on Flickr. *** Still haven't figured out this writing journal thing. I...

*** If we only knew the gravity of grace that sustains all that is and all that could be working in and through us one word would rep...

"How are you feeling today?" is the door through which the doctor steps. Some answer, some don't, some can't, and...

Uncle Bob and the Baltimore Ravens , a photo by []Aaroneous Monk[] on Flickr. Grabbed my Baltimore Ravens cap as I headed out the door t...

*** There are two of them, a boy and a girl, six years apart. There is no comparing, it's apples and oranges (I like it that way)....

I'd love to learn to write better, but my inclination is to take a picture instead. , a photo by []Aaroneous Monk[] on Flickr. 10/30...

The Protector of Children , a photo by []Aaroneous Monk[] on Flickr. ***** "I watch for cars when the kids are going over to Sund...

Kevin Remembered , a photo by []Aaroneous Monk[] on Flickr. Tonight I was washing dishes and listening to James Taylor while the kids sh...

A Visit with St. John of San Francisco , a photo by []Aaroneous Monk[] on Flickr. The melodic drone of chant fills the immense church a...

I yelled at a kid today and I'm not proud of it. Sure, he's bigger than my son but how much bigger than him am I? He's a...

*************** The mirror sits as it always does, cold, flat, indifferent, impossibly shiny. He looks intently at the reflection th...

1976 , a photo by []Aaroneous Monk[] on Flickr. I remember the laundromat that my mother used to take me to when I was a child. It sa...

Muir Woods , a photo by []Aaroneous Monk[] on Flickr. The slightly-edited story below is one I wrote when I was a college student in the e...

It has been quite some time since my son last updated his blog, Kramer's Kronicles , a blog we created to post his stories. We starte...

I have a dream that one day my children may be free from the sins of their father, sins passed down from generation to generation, dy...

She sat across from us during the Divine Liturgy, on a bench typically reserved for the Bishop, when he visits. It accommodates three s...