[note color="#ECFF9C"]“Habits are neither made in a moment nor are they broken in a moment. But at any moment one can begin to make or break them. Acts develop habits, and habits form character, and character determines destiny.” – Fr. John D. Fullerton[/note] I’ll make this short and sweet: Integrity matters. I teach undergraduate classes at a university. Earlier tonight, I was filling out paperwork for a student who committed plagiarism. This wasn’t the “oops, I forgot to cite a reference” type of plagiarism; this was the “copy and paste another student’s work” type of plagiarism. The … [Read more...]

Have you ever spent a lot of time walking through an older person's home? If you are like me, you are mesmerized by the pictures, ornaments, sculptures, doodads, and furniture. Looking around, I wonder what story these collections tell. Where did he get that trophy in the corner? What does that picture mean to them? Who are those people in the black and white portrait on the wall? It makes me want to ask question after question and learn all I can about who they are, and what life was like for them years before I was born. What is the significance of the things they saved all these … [Read more...]