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December 2019

December 08, 2019

Caroll Spinney has Died

Today, we're all digesting the sad news that Sesame Street's legendary Caroll Spinney, the...

December 05, 2019

The Kingdom of God is the Kingdom of Addition

Yesterday, I delivered the last of the presents from the First Annual Parish Giving Tree...

December 02, 2019

The Miracle of the First Sunday

As I've already mentioned, I went to Mass yesterday for the first Sunday of Advent,...

November 2019

November 30, 2019

The Lion is Not Real: a Lesson About Faith

When I was a very little girl I used the word "real" to mean ordinary,...

November 20, 2019

But What is a Piano?

We were reaching the end of a long page of multiplication problems. Rosie is...

November 09, 2019

A Late Autumn Shopping Expedition

I have no idea how to be a mother. Maybe nobody does. In my case,...

October 2019

October 29, 2019

Arroyo, John Legend and the Grinch who Stole Halloween

It's two days til Halloween, which I have frequently opined is one of...

October 17, 2019

Rosie Wins a Battle

It started with the pixie cut. Rosie climbed up on the bathroom sink and...

October 10, 2019

Where There Are Octobers

Fall finally came about the fourth of October; the hot weather slacked off with a...

August 2019

August 12, 2019

On Ribbons, Belts, and Bronx Cheers

When I was Rose's age, in the first and second grade, I attended Saint Michael's...

June 2019

June 01, 2019

On High Places

I have always been terrified of high places. As a child, when I went to...

May 2019

May 30, 2019

A Story With a Disappointing Ending

I'd finally gotten a couple of ten-dollar plastic sets of drawers so I could...

May 27, 2019

At Almost Eight Years Old…

My Rosie is almost eight years old. She is beautiful, but she doesn't care about...

May 24, 2019

He Fills the Empty and Exhausted

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

May 16, 2019

May is a Mystery Most Uncertain

I have told you about February in the Ohio Valley, which is gray on gray....

April 2019

April 23, 2019

The Departure of Margaret Shank

My mother used to tell us stories about the housekeeper who worked for her...

March 2019

March 28, 2019

I Am Not Used to the Living

The warmth is coming back. Today we had the windows open for a bit after...

March 11, 2019

A Gold Day, A Kite Day

February is truly gone, and the gray went with it. If the physical and...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

The February Escape

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

January 2019

January 17, 2019

Which Is the Authentic Catholicism?

I was recently mentioned in a curiously disjointed and rambling article at Church Militant....

January 16, 2019

Mary the Door

A couple days ago now, I talked about my upbringing among Apparition Chasers fascinated...

January 12, 2019

Steubenville? Or Ohio?

Every time Franciscan University shows up in the news for doing something awful, I...

January 04, 2019

When Women Dance

It seems that the biggest scandal involving the new members of our House of...

December 2018

December 09, 2018

A Season of Darkness and Joy

We ended up walking home from Mass, on the vigil of the Immaculate Conception. There...

December 08, 2018

No, Dr. Marshall, Gingerbread is not Effeminate

On today's episode of What Public Catholics are Angry About Now: Dr. Taylor Marshall is...

November 2018

November 24, 2018

A Parade, a Kiss, and a Longing for the Beautiful

Thanksgiving. I've been wanting to write something Thanksgiving-themed all week but I got so...

November 23, 2018

What is the Work of the Devil?

Yesterday I had a blast from the past and found myself insisting that Harry Potter...

November 21, 2018

Harry Potter and the Misplaced Terrors

They say that history repeats itself. As far as world events, we stand poised on...

November 16, 2018

Rosie and the Corner Friends

An acquaintance once shared an uninspired meme on Facebook that said, "I want you to...

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...