El Borak

El Borak is an historian by training, an IT Director by vocation, and a writer when the mood strikes him. He lives in rural Kansas with his wife of thirty years, where he works to fix the little things.

July 12, 2018

Gardening

Bunch of Little Rotters

Over the years my tomato patch has produced respectable results. But one of the problems I consistently encountered was called Blossom End Rot. It happened first some ten years ago and grew

February 19, 2018

What Did We Think Was Going To Happen?

Everyone, it seems, has a magic bullet that’s going to end school shootings. It’s part of our culture. The left wants one simple law passed and the right another repealed. Everyone on Twitter is a policy expert, Facebook is filled

February 26, 2018

Undercover Gardening: Mulching with Shredded Paper

September 21, 2019

A Spiritually Dark Future

Literature

Beggar's Choice, Part II

January 29, 2018

Part I can be found here. The rain had subsided by midnight, though ragged clouds still hid most of the stars. A moist wind whipped Larvik’s new cloak about his body as

Literature

Beggar's Choice, Part I

January 27, 2018

Larvik brushed away the flakes of skin that fell like black snow upon his table. He deflected the waitress again; the pockets of his faded cloak held nothing of any use to

Finances

Buy Pies, Sell Slices

January 20, 2018

Here at Men of the West, we believe in resilience. We promote spiritual resilience: that deep and abiding faith in Christ that helps us to overcome the world. We work toward physical

History·Politics

Preserving the rule of law

January 13, 2018

I guess some didn’t realize there are popular parts of Obama’s legacy to be repealed as well: (CNN) Ron Paul, the former GOP congressman and onetime presidential candidate, called on Attorney General

History

John Brown: The Making of a Martyr

January 9, 2018

The first in a series of history books that belong in every American’s library. Recommendations welcome. Robert Penn Warren’s John Brown: The Making of a Martyr (1929) has been described as “very

Family

Useful Emergency Preparedness Apps

January 1, 2018

When I was a kid and the sky turned green, my family used to gather around our weather radio to find out what was coming our way. We’d listen to that monotonous

Uncategorized

Best Friends: Companion Planting in the Garden

December 30, 2017

Companion planting is the art of plant placement that allows the plants themselves to do much of the work of gardening.

History·Religion

The Historicity of Jesus

December 27, 2017

Usually one must wait for Easter for the media to trot out its stable of “mainstream” religious scholars who know nothing about their subjects. This year, the present was delivered at Christmas:

Culture·Politics

Christians are mean: Film at 11

December 23, 2017

When the press measures attitudes rather than facts: Jesus Christ may have lived as a poor man and consistently been on the side of those with little material wealth, but a poll

Literature·Religion

On that Christmas Day

December 14, 2017

There was a young Jewish girl named Mary, and she was scared. She wasn’t exceptionally beautiful or exceptionally smart or exceptionally strong; in fact, she didn’t feel herself to be exceptionally anything

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