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April 2017

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 24, 2017

Drink Your Poison Yourself

I spent my morning on Facebook trying to communicate with a super-bitter, misogynistic geek guy with a...

March 23, 2017

The problem of Ken and Barbie

Flipping through Netflix recently, my kids and I wound up watching a handful of episodes...

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 25, 2017

Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day

Yesterday I wrote about meeting life's small thorns with grace in the pursuit of...

February 13, 2017

A Moment’s Pause

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

January 2017

January 20, 2017

My oldest son is verging on adolescence, and I've noticed more and more similarities between...

October 2015

October 16, 2015

Learning to Love the Thing I Most Wish Had Not Happened

Last week was Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada. It also marked the four year anniversary...

July 2015

July 11, 2015

When submission becomes a false idol

First, the disclaimer: My husband and I have problems (you don't live a thousand miles...

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...

May 10, 2015

Is it insensitive to celebrate Mother’s Day?

Mother's day has always, since its institution as a day in honor of mothers who...

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...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

Is my husband a ham sandwich?

So I received a comment on my marriage post that was so bizarre as to...

March 28, 2014

The discussion of marriage continues

With this from Calah Alexander, who takes a discussion about infidelity and the sacrament of...

March 22, 2014

One to get married

I haven't been writing a ton lately, partly because I've been working a lot, and...

January 2012

January 29, 2012

Thank you for your prayers!!

The door is reopened to reconciliation, though we're hampered by the distance between us and...

October 2010

October 10, 2010

Guest Post – Things My Mother Tried to Teach #4

Some more of Mom's lessons as recalled by my oldest sister Emily:What I learned from...

October 06, 2010

Things My Mother Tried To Teach Me #3 – Reading

My mother collected Dick and Jane readers, and the Catholic John and Jane variants.When I...

October 02, 2010

Things My Mother Tried To Teach Me #2

"Only boring people are bored."Ok, ok, so this isn't so much a lesson as a...

October 01, 2010

Things My Mother Tried To Teach Me

Clean up as you go. I'm pretty sure Mom had years where she pitied our...