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June 2015

June 14, 2015

What Not to Read When You’ve Got a Rash

I don't have a rash, so I can read this book: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes...

June 13, 2015

Transvestites and Conservative Christians Meet Minds at the Cult of Prettiness

Being pretty has never come naturally to me. I like the concept in theory, but...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

What Not to Read When You’ve Got a Cough

Tip for you: Don't read a book about the history of tuberculosis while you're laying...

May 26, 2015

Love, Death, and the Communion of Saints: There are Movies for That

My chief occupation this Memorial Day was doing things to prevent my lungs from making...

May 23, 2015

The Perverse Pleasures of Chronic Illness: Ordinary Colds

Late this afternoon I gave up all pretense that my runny nose might be allergies...

May 20, 2015

Marriage is Not a Purchase, Your Spouse is Not Your Slave

Unclear on the concept is abounding these days. Michelle Arnold shared the link to this...

May 19, 2015

Unclear on the Concept, Teachers Sexting Edition

A friend passed on this article, about a public high school coach who texted her...

May 13, 2015

Why I Love Facebook Ads

I was clicking through Facebook this morning and of course there were lunch boxes everywhere....

May 10, 2015

Survey Now Open: Listen To Me, Catholic Mothers Edition

I've lost my patience with church people who just won't listen to the real stories...

May 08, 2015

Three Reasons I Hate Mothers Day, and the Holidays We Need Instead

It's that weekend again, and people, nice people, have already started wishing me happy...

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....

April 2015

April 28, 2015

Help a Widow and Two Orphans

I'd like to invite those of you with the means to do so to contribute...

April 18, 2015

About that Food Stamp Thing

Here's Simcha Fisher writing about her food stamp experience, and her experience should disturb you,...

March 2015

March 23, 2015

New Entries for Our French-Redneck Dictionary

So I've got four high school students sitting at my kitchen table, and we're going...

March 22, 2015

Easter Season Internet Safety For Parents

The spouse sneaks back to the bedroom this afternoon and says in a low voice,...

March 10, 2015

A Patron Saint for Rabble Rousers and their Bishops

When I answered Tom McDonald's How I Pray series, one of the pile of question marks...

March 06, 2015

Civil Liberties and the Obama Indifference

Found myself in an awkward spot today, needing to be in the state capital at...

February 2015

February 20, 2015

Understanding Low-Literacy Cultures: My Living History Tea Experiment

I'm home sick today with something normal for a change, sore throat, which means I have...

February 16, 2015

Something Beautiful for Lent: Cultivating God’s Garden by Margaret Rose Realy

The book I've just finished reading is Margaret Rose Realy's Cultivating God's Garden Through Lent. I'm...

February 07, 2015

50 Shades of Arousal Disorders: BDSM and the Moral Life

If you browse among the purveyors of sex toys, which you most emphatically should not...

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....

January 21, 2015

Satan Ups His Game: Supreme Court Declines to Protect Secrecy of Sacramental Confessions

Bad news for human souls: The US Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal...

January 19, 2015

Racism in the American South Today

In 1988 I moved to a small town in South Carolina, not far from where...

January 17, 2015

The 2nd Commandment is Like It: The US Bishops Face Their Boko Haram

In thinking about the massacres in Nigeria, my train of thought ran like this: How...

January 07, 2015

Scantily Clad Teenage Dancer Friends on Facebook

From the inbox, a question re: Discussing Modesty from a friend who said he'd be...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

Being Someone New for 2015

Two links to my work elsewhere that deserve your attention as we start the new...

December 25, 2014

Doing Something Right, Christmas Edition

Heard on the playground after Mass this morning: "I know what I want for Christmas...

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 17, 2014

Something Useful: Cursive Worksheet Generator – You Specify the Text

What I'm thinking about today is . . . cursive. This site rescued a child...

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...