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December 2017

December 01, 2017

Seven Takes in Seven Words or Less (sort of)

1. Thoughts during the Santa Claus Parade Good riddance, November! December already? Ack! 2....

November 2017

November 17, 2017

Can We Just Not Do This Anymore, Please? Seven Quick Fed-Up Takes

Lord, if You're listening, I know You are really fond of this Freely-Given Love thing,...

July 2017

July 07, 2017

A Step by Step Guide to the Beach [SQT]

The beach is fun. We all have fun at the beach. But do you ever...

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 20, 2017

Back Again

I've been away this past week, and have subsequently neglected the blog. We spent...

March 01, 2017

Ash Wednesday

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

December 2016

December 22, 2016

How the World Works

I am fuming this morning. Some of the local children came up with a cooperative...

December 09, 2016

Doing All The Traditions

St. Nicholas Day was this past Tuesday. As I always do, I put some effort...

November 2016

November 21, 2016

Is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton racist?

So, apparently, the talking point today in some circles is that the musical Hamilton is...

November 08, 2016

An Open Letter to Fr. Frank Pavone’s Superiors

This is the text of a letter I sent via electronic submission form to the...

June 2016

June 06, 2016

Binge drinking is not rape

The Stanford rapist, Brock Turner (and there you are, may those words accompany that name...

November 2015

November 20, 2015

A Letter

Dear Nasrin,You don't know me--you live in the US, and I live in Canada--but we...

October 2015

October 12, 2015

Love among the ruins

A snippet from a piece I published last week: ...There are things broken that we cannot...

August 2015

August 21, 2015

Thoughts on a Broken World

I've been thinking about the brokenness of the world all day, and about how nobody...

August 18, 2015

Colbert on Suffering, Sorrow, and Joy

Don't miss this incredible interview with Stephen Colbert. I found this inspiring, in the midst...

August 05, 2015

Giving Back

For years now, I've belonged to an online forum that has become a true on-and-offline...

July 2015

July 24, 2015

The weight of impatience

As I said in the preamble to my last post, I've spent a lot of...

May 2015

May 23, 2015

Mulling things over

Here are the topics jumbled up in my mind and in my conversations the last...

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...

February 2015

February 16, 2015

Gratitude

This morning, I slept in thanks to Family Day, which is a day off school...

February 10, 2015

Why Vaccinate?

Vaccination has been a hot topic lately, and with all the arguing and link-posting and...

December 2014

December 23, 2014

Homosexuality and identity

I caught a bit of controversy brewing in the wake of a piece by Austin...

November 2014

November 12, 2014

On shrinking your horizons

I love the blog Epbot. It has a lot of fun geeky stuff, neat craft...

September 2014

September 05, 2014

7 Quick peeks at what I’ve been reading online

--- 1 ---An ancient first contact story from Ireland? Michael Flynn mulls over the affinity...

September 02, 2014

What I’m Listening To

Fresh from my mailbox:A while back, philosopher Sam Rocha posted sample tracks from his album project...

August 2014

August 30, 2014

New blog look

So, I have a new blog template. I bartered some editing for it. Isn't it...

August 27, 2014

I’m getting a new look!

August 12, 2014

You Don’t Have to Carpe the Diem

Seize the day. Go gonzo. Live the good life. Give it all you've got. Suck...

August 08, 2014

7 Quick Takes: Well, that escalated quickly.

--- 1 ---We want camping last week. Somehow, it's taken this long for me to...

July 2014

July 24, 2014

The Language of Friendship

You know how "gift-giving" is one of the Love Languages, alongside "words of affirmation," "acts...