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August 2018

August 26, 2018

View from the Edge

NB: This is not a post about the scandal in the Catholic Church. The news...

February 2018

February 28, 2018

It’s Not About You

*NB. Plug in just about any other parenting choice within the range of normal and...

December 2017

December 14, 2017

The Mindful Mutt

I feel like I've been going a dozen different directions this Advent, trying to be...

October 2017

October 12, 2017

“What do NFL protesters want, anyway?” Cultivating the Virtue of Curiousity

I spend a lot of time with Google. When I was a child, arguments between...

September 2017

September 30, 2017

Bunny in a Dark Labyrinth: Trauma and Choice in a Playboy World (Guest Post)

It's an incredibly complicated thing when your personhood has been crushed through sexual exploitation.

September 22, 2017

A Literary Feast

One of the pleasures of poetry is rolling a particularly juicy turn of phrase over...

September 20, 2017

“The leaves are different from the trees”

Recently, at the end of a busy, stressful day, a friend's Facebook post started me...

September 14, 2017

The Peace of Wild Things

After waving my youngest off to school on the bus yesterday morning, I found my...

August 2017

August 02, 2017

“The disabled can only create unhappiness”: Why we need to talk about suffering

This morning I watched a L'Arche video about a massacre of disabled individuals that happened...

July 2017

July 26, 2017

Restlessness and Redemption Suffering (Throwback Thursday)

I've slowly been updating links from old, pre-Patheos posts, since the individual page links don't...

July 25, 2017

Life Is Pain: Carrying in Our Bodies the Dying of Jesus

"Brothers and sisters: We hold this treasure in earthen vessels... always carrying about in the...

July 11, 2017

The Gift of the Ordinary

My nephew Sammy rang the bell last week. The bell in question is the one...

June 2017

June 27, 2017

Strawberries and Sorrow

I've been feeling overwhelmed this week. The week didn't start well. As we gathered Saturday...

May 2017

May 29, 2017

Modesty and the Naked Truth

I want to propose a definition for modesty that seems to me to fit all...

May 01, 2017

The Given Life (a book review)

"We live the given life, and not the planned." - Wendell Berry I first...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

At The Personalist Project: Broken for Us

Christ died. He suffered that sundering of body and soul that awaits us all, so...

April 04, 2017

Should your teenage daughter learn NFP?

Fertility Awareness should be for every woman—not just sexually active ones I had a somewhat...

March 2017

March 22, 2017

Friendship Through A Glass Darkly

When my oldest child was small, he would sometimes ask me what I was doing...

March 09, 2017

At The Personalist Project: A Cat-shaped Carrot

Yesterday was my oldest son's birthday, and it got me musing about the nature of...

March 08, 2017

Happy Birthday, Kiddo!

One of my favourite FB features is the "On This Day" app that lets you...

March 02, 2017

At The Personalist Project: When Friendship Doesn’t Go Far Enough

There's an article going around with the click-bait title, "More Than BFFs: When Friendship Goes Too Far."...

February 2017

February 28, 2017

Fat Tuesday and the Good of Created Things

It says something interesting about Catholic culture that Pancake Tuesday and Shrove Tuesday sit comfortably...

February 25, 2017

At The Personalist Project: A Lent of Tiny Thorns

What is the use of giving up something like dessert? Dessert is...

February 13, 2017

A Moment’s Pause

I'm still settling in here at Patheos, after a month in my new blog digs....

October 2016

October 04, 2016

Defined by morals, not memories

This piece popped up in my FB memories from last year, and I was moved...

May 2015

May 21, 2015

Your pain is a celebration

After my last post, I told a few people I was planning a followup that...

April 2015

April 02, 2015

Should you bring your kids to the Easter Vigil?

I lay in bed this morning, kids piled on top of me, and talked to...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

Telling the truth about ourselves.

Over at the Personalist Project, I'm talking about a definition of modesty that transcends sexual...

May 01, 2014

Choose your poison

This morning, a friend who knows fairly well the ups and downs and trials of...

February 2013

February 06, 2013

Short People Don’t Play Basketball

Imagine that you're short. (Maybe you don't have to imagine, maybe you've always been a...