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May 2025

May 29, 2025

Misogynist Clericalism Strikes Again

The new bishop of Charlotte (NC) is under fire from, well, everybody for his recent...

January 2024

January 03, 2024

The Value of Pre-Made Decisions

Day three of Mag 90, and let me tell you about Costco. My gosh, that...

September 2023

September 30, 2023

Is Graded Exercise Therapy Safe and Effective?

This is a quick PSA based on some conversations trending at the moment, on the...

August 2023

August 15, 2023

How Much College Tuition is ‘Reasonable’?

Good piece at The Atlantic on the wealth divide in admissions to public universities: "These State...

July 2023

July 27, 2023

Why Your Doctor Needs to Know More About “Fatigue”

Great piece this morning by Ed Yong at The Atlantic "Fatigue Can Shatter a Person" summarized...

June 2023

June 01, 2023

Does Jesus Care About Medical Gaslighting?

I write a fair bit about the mental game of living with chronic illness, and...

May 2023

May 03, 2023

Girls Who Do Boy Things

From a conversation this evening: Your daughter who likes to do "boy" things will be...

April 2023

April 23, 2023

Something Deeper than a Boycott

There reaches a point where you lose your patience with being mocked. With the latest...

March 2023

March 18, 2023

The Cause-of-Death Equivocation Fallacy

Today we're looking at a particularly abhorrent fallacy I ran across this morning, and no,...

February 2023

February 16, 2023

When Church Leaders Spout Blarbage

My writing friend and I have started identifying a particularly painful genre of Catholic literature:...

January 2023

January 27, 2023

Modesty for Priests

The Pillar has a detailed story on the accusations of sexual misconduct against Fr. Frank...

December 2022

December 28, 2022

‘Where are You Really From?’

I have a friend born and raised in Orangeburg, SC. She speaks with a strong...

December 15, 2022

Why Your Doctor Thinks It’s Just Depression

From an article at Stat on physician burnout: Physicians have among the highest rates of suicide of any...

December 10, 2022

Serious Answers to ‘Why the Far Right is Fixated on Drag Queens’

Sometimes The Atlantic runs thoughtfully-researched articles from varying points of view, so I was curious to...

October 2022

October 17, 2022

Parsing Out the Physical from the Psychological in Chronic Illness

Today I want to dive into a study brought to my attention by a usually...

October 14, 2022

Mental Reality Check on Auditory Processing Disorders

H/T to Emily DeArdo who brought fully to my attention the debate ("debate") about John...

September 2022

September 30, 2022

NPR Media Disconnect with Real Life, Hurricane Edition

This morning while my kid was driving across town in an approaching hurricane to go...

September 10, 2022

Bad Medical Reporting Hurts Vulnerable Patients

It will surprise no one that I have a few criticisms of Suzy Weiss's report...

August 2022

August 31, 2022

The Climate of Racial Suspicion

I want to comment on the video circulating now about the Black pastor who was...

July 2022

July 14, 2022

Gaslighting 101, Transgender College Roommates Edition

My daughter's college housing application (small red-state public college) had some great questions on it...

May 2022

May 28, 2022

What is “Scandal”?

If you haven't seen it already, Gloria Purvis has an excellent interview with Archbishop Cordileone...

May 16, 2022

Getting the Most Out of Your College Time & Money

Text from the 20-year-old today, and I paraphrase with added subtext to assist the reader:...

May 01, 2022

Free Speech is . . . Free

I'm cracking up at the assertion that we somehow need a government agency, with a...

April 2022

April 29, 2022

Twitter Fears?

I'm completely mystified concerning what it is people fear if too much freedom-of-speech should come...

March 2022

March 30, 2022

Baby Circ Says: Buy the Tool that Fits Your Hand

Baby Circ is the cordless circular saw I talked Superhusband into buying for our spring...

March 16, 2022

Dismembering Womanhood

Confession time: In daily life the pronoun thing is off my radar. I live in...

January 2022

January 30, 2022

The Fallacy of Personal Contentment

Amy Welborn writes forcefully in "But do gird your loins" about the disconnect between church...

January 21, 2022

Reasoning vs. Rationalizing

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

January 15, 2022

Medical Gaslighting Illustrated

I want to run through a case study from a physician who writes about gaslighting...

January 07, 2022

Hidden in Translation: Downplaying the Seriousness of Civil Rights Threats

The following essay is a detailed discussion of the political implications of the meanings of...