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May 2021

May 18, 2021

The Beautiful and the Pleasant

It was one of those days where I just want to disappear. I wished...

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March 26, 2021

The Name I Call Myself

The first week as a car owner didn't start out very well. I was...

January 2021

January 19, 2021

On the Holiday Bus

I didn't realize that Monday was Martin Luther King Day until late Sunday night. Martin...

March 2020

March 19, 2020

Thank You To The Heroes On Saint Joseph’s Day

On this solemnity of Saint Joseph, I want to honor the people who are doing...

March 13, 2020

Things That Are Helpful

When I took the bus home yesterday after my gory grocery store misadventure, one passenger...

September 2019

September 14, 2019

Bransfield, West Virginia, and the Tragedy of Greed

I am grateful to the Washington Post for keeping up their excellent reporting on the...

July 2019

July 06, 2019

The Ecology of Motherhood

I took Rosie on a shopping expedition. She spent most of the bus trip chattering...

May 2019

May 24, 2019

He Fills the Empty and Exhausted

I have been sick for a week. The nature of living on tips being...

May 13, 2019

The Day we Learned School was Dangerous

We got on the bus to go downtown, at the beginning of our school...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

The February Escape

I was at that point in February where the uptick in fibromyalgia combines with the...

October 2018

October 08, 2018

A Series of Mishaps and Rescues

The week really didn't go South until Wednesday evening. Wednesday was the day...

September 2018

September 04, 2018

Back to School for the Very First Time

We finished our first year of homeschooling. I've been meaning to tell you guys about...

August 2018

August 02, 2018

An Open Letter to Walgreens

To Donovan W. Pepper National Director, Local Government Relations Walgreen Co. 104 Wilmat Rd,...

July 2018

July 25, 2018

In Defense of Libraries

I once had to do a tricky take-home exam on Plato, over a...

July 25, 2018

Don’t Run Over the Turkey

I learned to drive. Well, almost. I can nearly drive. A friend gave me...

July 13, 2018

Cancer and Sunflowers

The bus was ten minutes late. I knew what that meant. It meant that...

July 11, 2018

I Found a Mountain

I took Rose to her annual doctors' appointment. It was in the old medical building,...

February 2018

February 22, 2018

One Candle

I caught the last bus home from Wal Mart. It was quite dark, it was...

February 05, 2018

The Great Flu Outbreak

I was finally starting to get over the Annual Post-Christmas Fibromyalgia Flare-Up. With the...

December 2017

December 20, 2017

Biscuits, Guns and a Discount Turkey Sandwich

We rode the bus to the mall to see Santa. Rosie brought along her teddy...

December 10, 2017

Comfort and Joy in Downtown Steubenville

I was recently informed by a disgruntled reader that I "literally threw the entire...

October 2017

October 16, 2017

A Plummeting Ghost

I once read that, if you ever find yourself falling to your death, you should say "My...

September 2017

September 14, 2017

Portrait of a Man

The powerful start wars. The helpless go to war, lose limbs, and come back needing...

August 2017

August 01, 2017

Why Don’t The Poor Cook From Scratch?

I had a run-in with an interesting gentleman just now-- the kind of person you...

June 2017

June 30, 2017

Some Say Peter

There are saints who seem like strangers to me, and Peter and Paul go into...

June 08, 2017

Should Amazon Give Discounts to EBT Recipients?

I'm often told that the poor are envious. I'm not going to claim I'm without...

June 05, 2017

What’s in the Dark

One learns what the poor's real needs are, when they themselves have to learn to...

May 2017

May 31, 2017

Free Among the Dead

That's all anybody can ever do: help each other suffer less, and pretend to be...

May 20, 2017

Darkly, But I See

I don't know how we'll keep ourselves alive across the river in West Virginia. I...

May 10, 2017

Interesting Times

I hardly know where to begin. I feel as though I had four or five...