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September 2022

September 06, 2022

A Musical Interlude

It's been hard to think about Jesus lately, but I was meditating on Him...

May 2021

May 04, 2021

An Appalachian Angelus

Rosie came with me to run errands. We run errands in a car now....

October 2020

October 09, 2020

Every Night And All

It got cold last week. It was going to frost, or get close to it....

August 2020

August 10, 2020

To Bow and to Bend

I have a new garden friend now. I haven't seen him, but I know...

January 2020

January 28, 2020

Nothing New Under the Stars

It started innocently enough. EWTN's Raymond Arroyo, who apparently had no pressing news stories to...

November 2019

November 20, 2019

But What is a Piano?

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

October 2019

October 25, 2019

Wine-Dark, Rust-Red

I once met a lady who came to the Ohio Valley from Europe. She'd raised...

September 2018

September 24, 2018

To the Family With the Disabled Boy in Church

I was at the 5:30 PM Mass. I was lonely and cranky, as usual,...

August 2018

August 30, 2018

To Choke on the Word “Holy”

I sat in the pew by myself. Rose had asked permission to stand in...

August 15, 2018

Sanctissima: Meditations on a Dark Assumption Day

We got to Mass just on time. That's a rarity, bus routes being what they...

July 2018

July 20, 2018

The Things I Learned, The Things I Taught

I worked in a Catholic daycare, over a decade ago, in one of the...

June 2018

June 04, 2018

Christ is Coming to Heal the World

It has not been a good weekend. Rosie came down with a fever and the...

May 2018

May 19, 2018

Something About the Royal Wedding

I don't care about the Royal Wedding. I really don't. I tried. I know...

May 03, 2018

Humming in the Crypt

My most annoying habit is that I hum when I'm sad. I am a...

April 2018

April 07, 2018

As a Deer Longs

We still don't have a way to get to the church that's become home....

March 2018

March 31, 2018

The Silence of Holy Saturday

Today, in its quiet way, is the most terrible day. Today is the day...

December 2017

December 16, 2017

The Fifth Sorrow of Mary: The Crucifixion and death of Christ

The first time she beheld Him, He was naked, soaked in her amniotic fluid...

November 2017

November 15, 2017

The First Joy of Mary: The Annunciation

The centuries-old prophecy has been fulfilled. The Virgin has conceived, and will bear a...

November 02, 2017

All Saints and All Souls

It wasn't All Saints' Day yesterday-- not for me, in the tradition I follow now....

October 2017

October 26, 2017

Swinging for Chastity

When I was a teenager, in that strange homeschool group where we kept ourselves pure from the...

June 2017

June 30, 2017

Some Say Peter

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

April 2017

April 21, 2017

What Catholic Women Hear

"Things Christian Women Hear" is trending on Facebook and Twitter. That's quite a topic; I...

April 19, 2017

The Scandal Of Resurrection Matins

It may have come to your attention that the Protestant blogger Jeff Maples visited Resurrection...

March 2017

March 17, 2017

Irish By Blood

My mother's family were Irish, from Waterford; they ended up in Columbus in the...

March 01, 2017

The First Station: Jesus is Condemned to Death

We adore You, O Christ, and we bless You, because by Your Holy Cross You...

February 2017

February 17, 2017

The Mead of Press Conferences

It is said that good poets have drunk the honey mead that was distilled from the blood...

January 2017

January 14, 2017

Remembrance of Things Past: Ten Things I Listened to as a Teen

All my friends are posting lists of "ten albums that influenced me as a teen."...

December 2016

December 16, 2016

Computers Can Generate Christmas Carols Now And It’s Worse Than You’d Think

I have a love-hate relationship with computers. I love the ease of typing, I love...

December 14, 2016

Please to Put a Penny In the Old Man’s Hat

Excuse a musical interlude: Christmas is a-coming, the goose and I are fat. Have you...

November 2016

November 29, 2016

My Christmas Redemption

I used to be one of those children who wrote poetry. Horrible poetry. I was...