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December 2020

December 30, 2020

A Witness to Life

I am writing a narrative. No, not that kind of narrative. Not the kind people...

September 2020

September 10, 2020

As You Sow

I picked corn yesterday. Corn is a plant that only yields if you plant a...

August 2020

August 12, 2020

The Lady of LaBelle

I was at the bus stop with Rosie. Someday, when this is over, I...

June 2020

June 25, 2020

My Response to Abby Johnson’s Shocking Racist Manifesto

I apologize ahead of time for the length of this post; as you'll see, a...

May 2020

May 24, 2020

The Parable of the Maple on Ascension Day

I don't know where the maple tree was, originally. There must have been a...

May 19, 2020

Norma McCorvey’s “Deathbed Confession” Reveals A Decades-Old Con

When I started blogging, I never planned to blog about the giants of the pro-life...

March 2020

March 25, 2020

A Rose in the Plague Time

The first time I forgot about the coronavirus, was yesterday. That was when I got...

March 11, 2020

Risk, Virtue and the COVID-19 Pandemic

I keep saying I hope that COVID-19 just goes away, and it keeps on not...

March 09, 2020

Love and Reverence in the Time of COVID-19

Last week I said that for all I knew, COVID-19 would just go away. I...

January 2020

January 19, 2020

In the January Slush

Friday night, I went to bed to the soft kiss of snow against the window....

January 09, 2020

I Voted Democrat Because I Am Pro-Life

They told me I had to vote Republican, because Republicans were pro-life. For awhile,...

January 07, 2020

The Gifts I Got This Christmas

Want to know what I got for Christmas? Oh, I got a lot of good...

December 2019

December 28, 2019

On the Feast of the Holy Innocents

I just want to take today to tell you that it is not your...

December 20, 2019

The Question of Feel-Good Stories

Today, my friends were sharing one of those "feel-good" stories that isn't actually very good....

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 04, 2019

The Color of Departed Souls

The leaves have peaked for the year, and the color is going away. Pretty...

November 02, 2019

Blessed are the Fools and Bad Men

A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke: At that time, Jesus came...

October 2019

October 31, 2019

Rosie Learns a Bible Verse

We hadn't had a Catechism lesson in awhile. Homeschooling is rather disorganized in the...

October 27, 2019

Bransfield, Wheeling Hospital, and the Idolatry of Greed

Do you know what it's like to get medical care in West Virginia?...

October 10, 2019

Where There Are Octobers

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

October 03, 2019

My Proposed Solution to the Abby Johnson Rumpus

I'm going to post about Abby Johnson one more time this week, and after this...

September 2019

September 28, 2019

The Names of the Rich are Forgotten

A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke: Jesus said to the Pharisees: "There...

September 18, 2019

If We Go To War Again

Today, I want everyone to do something for me. We just recently had the anniversary...

September 01, 2019

What if we Applied Pro-Life Rhetoric to Guns?

I was raised to believe that human life is important, and I believe it. I...

August 2019

August 26, 2019

Everything that Lives is a Miracle

I got to meet a friend for the first time this weekend. We'd corresponded online...

August 23, 2019

Saint Paul’s Letter to the Misogynists of Catholic Twitter

At the end of last week, there was a kerfuffle on Twitter, when some Catholic...

August 13, 2019

Addiction Doesn’t Discriminate (And Neither Should You!)

(This post is part one in a guest series on addiction by my friend Celia...

August 05, 2019

King Antiochus in the Adoration Chapel

It's been a rough week. There's plenty of horror going on in the world...

July 2019

July 26, 2019

A Different Sort of Ghost Story

It might have been the first act in a terrible ghost story, but it wasn't....

July 23, 2019

Poverty, Envy and a Poolside Lunch

I used to know a well-to-do woman of the neighborhood, a Catholic stay-at-home mom with...