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June 2017

June 23, 2017

Seven Quick Takes: Tea and Transitions

-1- There was a time when I did Seven Quick Takes most weeks. I went...

May 2017

May 12, 2017

At the Personalist Project: A Singular Mother’s Day

Today at the Personalist Project, I'm writing about Anna Jarvis and the founding of Mother's...

May 10, 2017

Is This The Real Life?

(Or is this just fantasy?) I attended a very small Catholic college, with student life policies...

May 09, 2017

Can we praise mothers on Mother’s Day?

This Sunday, perhaps we can pray that we all find the grace to rejoice with...

May 05, 2017

At The Personalist Project: The Political is Personal…is Political?

The Black Lives Matter movement is undoubtedly political. But it begins in the personal stories...

May 04, 2017

At the Personalist Project: The Personal is Political…is Personal

Earlier this week, late night show host Jimmy Kimmel opened his show with a tearful...

April 2017

April 29, 2017

Reminder to Self

"One of the arguments we often use for not writing is this: "I have nothing...

March 2017

March 21, 2017

The Falcon Cannot Hear the Falconer

We talk about living in a post-Christian era, but what does that actually look like? Does...

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 06, 2017

Prometheus

Prometheus . Into the window of time, new-opened, Adam’s hand, Prometheus-like, was singed condemned for...

March 01, 2017

Ash Wednesday

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

February 2017

February 23, 2017

Touching the Wall

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

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...

February 16, 2017

More Dangerous Than Bullets, continued

In my earlier post, I asked, "How does a modern, educated, middle-class child become an...

February 07, 2017

Letting my geek flag fly

I was at a bus station yesterday morning and a fellow at the ticket counter...

January 2017

January 30, 2017

A Plea to America: Remember Who You Are

Something I think we lose sight of. America represented something different in the age of...

January 29, 2017

Looking for actual (non-alternative) facts on refugees?

This post is going to be my ongoing clearinghouse for fact and data-based references on...

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...

November 2015

November 10, 2015

The Mercy Inversion

Bear with me, this post is geeky. I just finished watching The Zygon Inversion, last...

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...

May 2015

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...

May 2014

May 09, 2014

Living in the real world, Seven Quick Takes edition

--- 1 ---Marc has written a lovely reflection on man as a world-creator; specifically, he writes...

May 01, 2014

Choose your poison

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

April 2014

April 27, 2014

My Pope

I want to write something more about what it means to me that Pope John...

February 2012

February 28, 2012

Memory

My brother mentioned something to me a few weeks ago that I find compelling, a...

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...

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...