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January 2024

January 31, 2024

Fun Stuff: The Immediate Book Meme

It is with great joy that I observe Darwin Catholic and Wine-Dark Sea have brought...

December 2023

December 20, 2023

Why I’m Doing Magnify 90 this January

The reason I'm doing Magnify 90 this January is because my sister called me up...

February 2023

February 03, 2023

The Incoherent World of Wednesday

For a while during my misspent youth, I was a regular viewer of The Addams...

December 2022

December 02, 2022

A Movie Not to Miss: Devotion

Last month my movie-night girl and I went to see Top Gun: Maverick at the second-run...

February 2022

February 26, 2022

Lead up to Lent – Free book this weekend

Coming up from the rabbit hole with a quick heads up before Lent: Now through...

February 13, 2022

Book Review: Living Momento Mori by Emily DeArdo

Now up at the substack, *finally*, is my review of my friend Emily DeArdo's how-to...

February 09, 2022

Where Well-Behaved Jen Fitz is Writing This Year

If you want to understand the thing I'm about to announce, consider reading Simcha Fisher's...

February 04, 2022

Catholic Writers Conference Online, Feb 11-13 *strongly recommended*

Got an e-mail reminder that registration is still open for the Catholic Writers Guild's online...

January 2022

January 21, 2022

Reasoning vs. Rationalizing

There's a screenshotted homework assignment, reputedly from a Georgia virtual school, that's circulating right now,...

December 2021

December 18, 2021

Life As a Person Who is Not God

Emily DeArdo, who is not just my hero but also my friend, writes the thing...

November 2021

November 20, 2021

Being Welcoming vs. Selling “Welcoming”

Hard-hitting post by Amy Welborn: "I no longer live, but…" on the failure of come-back-to-Mass...

October 2021

October 25, 2021

Field Notes on Dealing with COVID and Similar Specters

COVID and chronic illness themed miscellany for this week: Revolving Door of Corona-life . ....

August 2021

August 12, 2021

Hyperventilating Over Gender Roles – And Harming Women While We’re at It

Gender Problems in Medieval Finland? In my goofing off today someone pointed me towards this...

July 2021

July 23, 2021

7QT: Life as a Walking Knock-knock Joke

Since it's that time of week, seven things to make you glad you don't live...

May 2021

May 24, 2021

Fun Stuff Authors Like

Just saw OSV's book video for The How-to Book of Evangelization for the first time today...

June 2020

June 29, 2020

My New Book has Launched! Woohoo! (+Free intro course, tell your friends!)

The kindle edition was available ahead of the official launch date, but I'm pleased to...

June 28, 2020

Spark Truth: The Life-Changing Magic of Reasoning Up

In prepping my first debate class for teenagers, I instituted a revolutionary rule: No participant...

August 2019

August 30, 2019

Labor Day Reading (Free Book): Learn to Tell the Story of You and Jesus

Your story is important. How important? Way back when the Internet first got going, what...

December 2017

December 15, 2017

What’s Your Life Worth to You?

My husband once had a business trip to a notoriously crime-ridden city. The client he...

September 2017

September 24, 2017

When Your Class Is So Bad You Have to Apologize to Other Teachers

Over at the Conspiracy, I tell the story of my most spectacular teaching failure ever....

August 2017

August 15, 2017

Speaking of White Supremacists . . .

. . . it is possible for people to change. Joseph Pearce's autobiography Race...

May 2017

May 31, 2017

Catholic? Like to Write? There’s a Conference for That

I have always enjoyed writing. In school and then at work as an accountant, I...

August 2016

August 16, 2016

Traps for Catechists and How to Avoid Them

It's new-catechist season, and if you know such a person, I'd be remiss if I...

April 2016

April 10, 2016

So You Want to Bring Your Kids Back to the Catholic Church?

I spent this weekend with as fine a portion of the Knights of Columbus and...

January 2016

January 12, 2016

Real Things from Fiction

Happy New Year everyone! I'm doing fine, a bit tired and a lot busy with...

November 2015

November 12, 2015

Return by Brandon Vogt – When Your Child Has Left the Faith, or Before

I had a chance earlier this fall to preview Return by Brandon Vogt. I haven't...

October 2015

October 28, 2015

True Radiance Chapter 6: The Beauty in Every Vocation

My friend Lisa Mladinich asked me to write today on chapter six of her beautiful...

October 17, 2015

The Coolest Thing About Being a Catholic Writer . . .

. . . is the people you get to work with. Here's a snapshot of...

October 11, 2015

Why I Don’t Care About Women’s Ordination

Way back when I was a confused but zealous Catholic teenager, I considered whether I...

September 2015

September 01, 2015

Why I Love Facebook and the #1 Secret to Radio Success

This Saturday (Sept 5th) I'll be on Outside the Walls with Timothy Putnam talking about parish...