Tin Cup Rattle, Day 1!

As I mentioned last week, today is Day 1 of the Quarterly Catholic and Enjoying It! Tin Cup Rattle

If you like what you read here, please help keep an emphatically lower middle class writer solvent so he can keep bringing you the weird combination of offbeat humor, theological ramblings, ecclesial and civil politics, and various cultural ephemera that you’ve come to realize you can’t live without. If you value this blog as much or more than you value your average newspaper or mag or, say, 60 Minutes, then help me continue doing what I do by throwing something in. I have a family of four at home, two still needing the ocassional nudge of financial aid that younglings recent out of the nest (or contemplating it) need (as well as my ailing and frail Mom staying with us for extended periods off and on) and we get by on a remarkably limited income, the grace of God and the goodness of youse guys.

The thing is: writing is time-intensive. If I don’t supply my family’s needs through stuff like Tin Cup Rattle then, much as I love it, I will have to supply my family’s needs through publishers who will pay me for stuff I write elsewhere. So please, click on the PayPal button to the left and help CAEI stay on the air and our kids get through college, our dentist get his kids through college, and our kidlets get to continue in the homeschool co-op. Also, food and a roof over the head are something they keep pestering me about.

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Thanks in advance for your kind generosity!