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September 2018

September 11, 2018

Why “This Is Us” Is the Medicine We Need

There are a lot of feel-good sitcoms that solve every problem in a half hour....

August 2018

August 09, 2018

Would I walk 600 miles?

I'm working on a project that has me writing very condensed descriptions of various saints,...

May 2018

May 22, 2018

A Tale of Two Husbands: Gerald Wynands (Four Weeks of Fine Men #2)

To continue yesterday's post, let me introduce you to Gerald Wynands, my grandmother's second husband....

May 21, 2018

A Tale of Two Husbands: Jan Feddema (Four Weeks of Fine Men #1)

I'd like to kick off my four weeks of fine men by telling you all...

May 20, 2018

Four Weeks of Fine Men

With all the examples of toxic masculinity in the news, I feel the need for...

April 2018

April 20, 2018

The Romantic Myth of the Ethno-National Underdog

The basis of the idea of ethno-states is the assumption that coexistence and pluralism pose...

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...

February 19, 2018

Lovely in Eyes Not His

I loved Mr. Rogers when I was a child. Simcha has a lovely reflection...

November 2017

November 24, 2017

Poetry Will Save the World (Seven Quick Takes)

My sister-in-law says I don't understand the "Quick" part of "Seven Quick Takes." She's probably...no,...

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 14, 2017

The Peace of Wild Things

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

September 01, 2017

The Church does not fit in your box

“I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against...

August 2017

August 22, 2017

Kill Your Heroes: The Fall of Joss Whedon’s Feminism

It turns out that Hollywood "feminist" girl-power TV and movie director Joss Whedon is a...

February 2017

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 28, 2012

Memory

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