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June 2017

June 20, 2017

Pain Bleg Update –> How’s It Going, Jen?

So if you post something like last month's Name this pain bleg, it's a good idea to update...

May 2017

May 06, 2017

Bleg: Name this Pain

Two interesting things happened this week: (1) I finally met the physician I'd been referred...

December 2015

December 05, 2015

Inside Tired World

The other morning I dreamt my editors here at the Catholic Channel had me to...

September 2015

September 14, 2015

Time Management and the Kinds of Time

I've fallen off the internet lately, and that's because I've been sleeping. More on that...

May 2015

May 01, 2015

Don’t Kill People with Disabilities. Especially Family. @BADDtweets

I'm reminded by Ruth at Wheelie Catholic that May 1 is Blogging Against Disablism Day....

January 2015

January 26, 2015

Evading the Useless Fairy Through the Miracle of Central Heating

I periodically give the friends and relatives a health update, which I don't usually publish here....

December 2014

December 24, 2014

Something Beautiful for Christmas: Marriage, Faith & Alzheimer’s by Larry Peterson

Up at Catholic Writers Guild today, Larry Peterson is stealing the show with his beautiful essay...

December 16, 2014

Death by Bad Reasoning: Depressed Mothers Deserve Treatment Not Bereavement

In a mortifying follow-on to our discussion of why we mustn't do evil in an...

June 2014

June 18, 2014

Three Easy Steps Towards US Health Care Reform

Rebecca Frech writes about the shopping-around method for saving on health care costs here. We...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

Mandatory Reading: Frank Weathers on Forced Sterilizations in the US. Not the long ago.

Remember way long ago at the first of the month, when I wrote on eugenics...

May 28, 2014

“I Got My Life Back!” And Similar Nonsense

At this writing, I am the poster child for Better Living Through Chemistry. If we...

May 09, 2014

How Not to Do Religion

William Peace tells the tale that tops all the weirdo-magnet stories I've heard to date....

May 01, 2014

Tried and True Ways to Eliminate People With Disabilities #BADD2014

About the time my eldest was born, it seemed like everyone was coming down with...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Just Say No to Needy Busybodies

If you search Google images for the word "No", a bazillion variations pop up. If...

April 29, 2014

Heart Rate Training for Fitness in Chronic Illness

I was chatting with Rebecca Frech the other week, who is both blessedly familiar with...