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2025-12-14T23:49:29-04:00

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Gaude, Gaude, Emmanuel

Last updated on: December 14, 2025 at 11:49 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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It snowed again. It snowed until the roads were indistinguishable from the curbs and the sidewalks. It snowed until it covered every last blade of the tall prairie grass that grows unimpeded now around the haunted house. The pokeberry trees around her old back porch bent over under the weight of the drifts. My backyard lilac bush became a great big vanilla-frosted wedding cake, and the whole earth was sparkle and silence. The next morning, Adrienne dug the car... Read more

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2025-12-10T18:10:08-04:00

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The Opposite of Hate is Curiosity

Last updated on: December 10, 2025 at 6:10 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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I stood at the front of the after school geography class, with a great big map projected on the screen behind me. The children sat around the classroom, some fidgeting and some paying attention. Some of the children only come to my class because they know I bring a snack, but some come because they genuinely think it’s interesting, and I welcome both kinds of children. Sometimes there’s only a handful of students, but sometimes there’s a bigger crowd. I... Read more

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2025-12-05T03:08:23-04:00

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The Cat, the Cat House and the Plight of the Homeless

Last updated on: December 5, 2025 at 3:08 am By Mary Pezzulo

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The cat house will get here tomorrow. A friend sent me a wonderful warm house for Charlie the traumatized cat. Neither our lease nor Michael’s allergies will tolerate an indoor cat. We knew that when Charlie wandered up to the porch begging for food about a year ago. Back then, Charlie was living with the Artful Dodgers, who didn’t feed or care for their pets, but who let them stay inside where it was warm for the night. We... Read more

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2025-12-03T22:53:18-04:00

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The Light in Darkness, Outside the Gate

Last updated on: December 3, 2025 at 10:53 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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I went to Mass on the first Sunday of Advent. That is something I can do now. I go to Mass, and this year I sit in the congregation. For years, starting in 2021, I was just too traumatized to do that. I spent a lot of Sundays praying outside the church or staying home, because the flashbacks and panic attacks were just to bad in church. By early 2024 I was well enough to stay in the foyer for... Read more

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2025-12-02T02:31:33-04:00

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Steubenville’s Homeless have Nowhere to Go

Last updated on: December 2, 2025 at 2:31 am By Mary Pezzulo

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Sometimes, the cruelty of our society takes my breath away. Here in Steubenville, we’re about to get our first big snowfall of the year. There’ll be a dump of one to three inches by the time school starts in the morning, so several of the schools are on a two-hour delay. It’s going to stay cold all week, and get bitterly cold next week. My family will be irritated but safe. We’re stapling construction worker plastic over the drafty places... Read more

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2025-11-26T01:23:54-04:00

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On Archery, the Devil, and Saint Nicholas

Last updated on: November 26, 2025 at 1:23 am By Mary Pezzulo

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All Adrienne wanted to do was practice archery. Knife throwing and archery are the favorite hobbies, lately. Adrienne sets up my half-barrel potato-planter, with a milk crate on top of it and a paper target taped to the milk crate, and torments it with practice arrows or little blunt throwing knives in the evenings after school. She’s getting pretty good. It’s pleasant for me to sit on the back steps, watching the demonstration, chatting with her about school and... Read more

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2025-11-25T01:16:25-04:00

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Evening Fell, and Life was Good

Last updated on: November 25, 2025 at 1:16 am By Mary Pezzulo

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On Saturday morning I went to get my coffee, and ended up standing in a puddle. This happens from time to time. We live in an old 1920s foursquare house with all kinds of character. There have been several plumbing catastrophes that are funny to remember in retrospect. This time, it was the bathroom drain that was the culprit. Every once in awhile, the plastic J-trap underneath the original cast iron bathtub falls off of the ancient metal drain pipe... Read more

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2025-11-21T03:15:52-04:00

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Theophany at Mount Pleasant

Last updated on: November 21, 2025 at 3:15 am By Mary Pezzulo

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I went to Mount Pleasant. Mount Pleasant is one of those places I’d seen on road signs for the five years I’ve been driving, but I’d never actually visited. It’s off the main road from the Ohio river, always a little too out of the way to be worth a trip. But I wanted to see it, because I’ve heard that practically the whole town is on the Register of Historic Places, so I packed up Sacre Bleu and... Read more

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2025-11-17T22:24:24-04:00

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On “Operation Charlotte’s Web”

Last updated on: November 17, 2025 at 10:24 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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Charlotte’s Web is a children’s book about friends banding together to save a life. It was one of my favorite chapter books growing up. I must have read it five times. I liked learning about all the different things that happened in a single year on an old-fashioned farm. I was fascinated by the slop they feed the pig, and the idea that you could bathe an animal in buttermilk. I loved the beautiful descriptions of nature. The ending... Read more

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2025-11-17T02:24:46-04:00

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Not Heaven or Hell, but Earth

Last updated on: November 17, 2025 at 2:24 am By Mary Pezzulo

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A friend of mine once dreamed she went to hell, but it wasn’t so terrible. In her dream, Hell looked like a prison camp with barbed wire and bleak ugly cell blocks everywhere. She found that she’d died and been sent there, along with all of her friends. The friends and she didn’t waste any time. They worked together and pooled their resources to make things bearable. Everybody was doing something to clean up the place and beautify all those... Read more

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