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August 21, 2026

Yes, Postpartum Mental Illness is Real

I just want to say that postpartum depression is real. All kinds of...

May 2026

May 28, 2026

To be Catholic is to be Yourself

Wednesday Was the Eighth Grade Graduation. Adrienne has done wonderfully. Once I pulled the...

May 10, 2026

Where You Are, There is God

It hurts to go to Mass alone on Mothers' Day. I've healed so...

April 2026

April 18, 2026

On Middle Age, and the LaBelle Special

I'm calling the sunflowers "The LaBelle Special." Sunflowers are a flower that cross pollenates...

August 2025

August 03, 2025

The Children in the Cloister

They came in during the Liturgy of the Word. I was in my hiding...

July 2025

July 25, 2025

I Wanted to Teach a Geography Class

I wanted to teach a children's geography class. This just might be the silliest idea...

May 2025

May 14, 2025

A Recollection at Dusk

As the sun was getting low, I went out to inspect the garden. Charlie the...

January 2025

January 19, 2025

The Only Place

I drove out to the overlook at Fernwood State Forest, not feeling too well....

October 2024

October 30, 2024

The Mandrake

I was ripping out the last of the tomato cages, when the shrieks began....

October 23, 2024

A Cat Named Disaster

Someone left the lid off the sandbox again. The Artful Dodger has at least...

September 2024

September 03, 2024

Throw it to Jesus

It started with the pumpkin. Well, it started on Saturday, with an artificial pumpkin....

January 2024

January 12, 2024

Red Sky at Morning

It was morning, but it didn't look like it yet. Adrienne woke me, asking for...

August 2023

August 30, 2023

Seeing Where You Go

Adrienne started middle school. The IEP is still forthcoming, so I had to explain things...

August 21, 2023

A Series of Mishaps

It was one of those stretches when nothing works out. Summer continued to be...

July 2023

July 20, 2023

Seeing Things Adrienne’s Way

Adrienne walked out of the eye doctor's office and sat next to me on...

July 09, 2023

When I Wasn’t Writing

I haven't been so well. I'm never well, as my regular readers know and my...

June 2023

June 27, 2023

And Christ is my Mother

On Sunday, after I went swimming, I went to Mass. Swimming is where I do...

June 25, 2023

While Mothering, While Swimming, While Praying

I may never get used to having a cynical adolescent in exchange for the...

May 2023

May 30, 2023

A Day for a Test

Today was the day for Adrienne's test. We should have had her tested a...

May 03, 2023

A Tale of Two Dollhouses

Grandpa made me a dollhouse, the most beautiful dollhouse in the world. Dollhouses were...

April 2023

April 24, 2023

A Bag of Teddy Bears

Adrienne brought me a bag of stuffed animals. She is eleven and a half...

January 2023

January 23, 2023

A Pagan on Sunday

We couldn't go to Mass on Sunday, not in the rain and snow. Serendipity...

November 2022

November 29, 2022

Everything Gold and Diamonds

Over the weekend, one of the Lost Girls mentioned that her children were...

November 01, 2022

Because Christ is Undivided

There's a certain release in admitting I just don't know. I am sure I've...

October 2022

October 30, 2022

How do you Spell “Myself?”

"I don't think I want to go trick-or-treating this year," said Adrienne, shortly after her...

October 11, 2022

A Witness to Life

Birthdays aren't the best day. The eve of my birthday is the anniversary of...

October 05, 2022

In the Best Month

It's October, the best month of all. The leaves are barely beginning to turn. You...

September 2022

September 22, 2022

For Adrienne’s Eleventh Birthday

Adrienne Rose turned eleven today. Eleven years ago, just after seven in the morning,...

September 11, 2022

I Will Rise Up

On the eleventh of September, When ages beyond number had run their course from...

September 09, 2022

A Drive At The End Of An Era

I went to run errands with Adrienne. It was the Nativity of the Virgin Mary,...