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October 2019

October 20, 2019

Why Not Try?

I spent a ponderous five minutes looking over the alarming statistics about the state of...

February 2019

February 20, 2019

Facebook Enacts Their Community Standards

Whatever it was I was thinking about yesterday evaporated when I happened on this news,...

February 06, 2018

An Update Too Long Overdue

Yesterday, at the ghastly hour of eight in the morning, I drove my parents to...

November 2017

November 28, 2017

That Time I Stood And Prayed By The Abortion Clinic

In all the bustle of the weekend I did manage to scroll through Twitter a...

November 08, 2017

Both of Us Together

I feel like I blog about this all the time. But, unfortunately, I think it...

November 06, 2017

Monday on the Catch Up Links

[These arrived at my house shortly after I did--a gorgeous present from a lovely friend.]...

September 2017

September 26, 2017

It’s Ok If You Can’t Pray

Praying is not a magical activity. You don't pray with deep fervor and then necessarily...

August 2017

August 27, 2017

Self Care on Sunday

[Jesus wondering why you say you love that smoothie.] I spent an indulgent hour this...

June 2017

June 30, 2017

7 Takes to Recovering Sane Disciplines

Can you believe it? June is over. This shouldn't upset me, but truly, it seems...

June 15, 2017

When Words Fail

Yesterday, some of you might have noticed, I was up with the lark, or rather...

May 2017

May 28, 2017

Obedience and Cataclysm

Seems Facebook and YouTube took down the latest undercover videos of planned parenthood. Read somewhere...

February 2017

February 21, 2017

10 Reasons to Love Lent

You do realize, don't you, that lent is just around the corner? Do you think...

February 19, 2017

When Someone Is Wrong On The Internet

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than...

February 09, 2017

Katie Couric Gives Away the Game

And now on to Katie Couric. I expect everyone has already seen this little clip....

February 05, 2017

Frailty and Fog

I have a bunch of jumbled confessions to make, being that it's Sunday and that's...

January 2017

January 28, 2017

Book and Hospital Notes

Friday has come to mean that I don't get to spend a nice evening with...

January 26, 2017

9 Reasons I Wish I Could Go to the March for Life

I promised myself I would go to the March for Life this year--especially after just...

January 22, 2017

If You’re Having Trouble Fathoming the Next Four Years

All weekend long I've been hearing people shouting in total exasperation, and have perhaps even...

January 18, 2017

Wordy Wednesday: When Mother Gets Sick

[See how bad it is!] This is the week of the listicle, probably, because I...

January 10, 2017

Being a Christian on Social Media

Not all of you, dear readers, are my true and sublime Facebook friends, although many...

December 2016

December 29, 2016

Private Grief in a Public Age

The only good thing about the death famous people is that it allows me to...

December 18, 2016

Mary and Jesus and Me

I am feeling some sort of obligation to write something about Mary today. It's nearly...

December 17, 2016

Notes from Home: Parenting and Reading

Facebook informs me that today is Bart Gingerich's birthday. If you don't know who he...

November 2016

November 11, 2016

NPR Doesn’t Get It

I just took that NPR "How Big Is Your Bubble" Quiz and according to them,...

October 2016

October 02, 2016

No Vain Hope

Good Shepherd's Tuesday Bible Study finished up Romans this last month and moved on to...

September 2016

September 18, 2016

The Singular Trouble of Prayer

I might have recently admitted here that I've not been living much of a Victory...

September 11, 2016

A Strong Tower on the Anniversary of 9/11

Matt and I had been married one whole month on the morning of September 11,...

September 06, 2016

Definitions: I Can Totally Multitask

Didn't realize it was a holiday yesterday until I pulled up into the empty Aldi...

July 2016

July 17, 2016

Desperate Times Call For Desperate Prayer

[Note about my poor tiny podcast whose link I broke yesterday, here it is again....

May 2016

May 03, 2016

The Discipline of Eating Bread

Mondays have turned into Matt slewing flour here and there in a sort of a...