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March 2017

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."...

March 01, 2017

Ash Wednesday

Today is Ash Wednesday. In a little while, I will go to Mass and receive...

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 23, 2017

Touching the Wall

There is a scene in Henry Poole is Here where the protagonist comes to...

February 22, 2017

Heart Speaks to Heart

I wrote yesterday about why I don't write a ton on specific theological controversies. I...

February 17, 2017

At The Personalist Project: Tin Pacifists and the Search for Meaning

“The Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he...

January 2017

January 28, 2017

At The Personalist Project: Staring Down History

It's popular in some circles to advise people to ask themselves, "Am I on the...

January 10, 2017

Quote of the Day

"One of the greatest dangers in the spiritual life is self-rejection. When we say, "If...

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...

June 2016

June 23, 2016

Modesty and Avoiding Scrupulousity

The question of modesty has come up again at Aleteia. In the ensuing discussion, a...

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 29, 2014

Telling the truth about ourselves.

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

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 22, 2014

One to get married

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

February 2013

February 21, 2013

Cri du Coeur

There's a particular kind of heartbreak that comes from being exposed to the all-too-human failings...

August 2011

August 26, 2011

A blanket apology…

...to everybody I have ever given advice to as though I know anything at all...

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...

June 2009

June 24, 2009

Some thoughts, and a poem.

2009 has been long, strange, and somewhat rocky for our family. Health and employment issues,...