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2024-09-09T01:36:45-04:00

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Blogkeeping Notes for September

Last updated on: September 9, 2024 at 1:36 am By Mary Pezzulo

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Hey friends, This is not a real blog post, this is my periodic blogkeeping post where I talk about things I did lately. And I’m a little late for the beginning of September. I haven’t written one of these since June and I’m ashamed to say I haven’t accomplished much until September, with being sick for two months straight and losing all of my writing projects. However, I am thrilled to announce that I am back to getting published... Read more

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2024-09-08T22:00:44-04:00

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The Things That Can Actually Happen at School

Last updated on: September 8, 2024 at 10:00 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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Donald Trump’s campaign appearances have been a bit loopier than usual this week. He’s started to talk about gender-reassignment surgeries that are supposedly happening at school. I know I said I would try to cram my politics update into one post per week, but I also said I’d have to talk politics more often as we got closer and closer to election day, and here I am. In the past several days, Trump has been repeating a series of bizarre... Read more

2024-09-07T02:34:05-04:00

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To a Quiet Place

Last updated on: September 7, 2024 at 2:34 am By Mary Pezzulo

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Ashwagandha is another medicine I can’t take. I tend to have backwards effects from all kinds of medications. I’m told that this is a symptom of my autism. I have to wear a bright orange bracelet in the hospital before surgery, warning nurses not to give me any Valium or Ativan, because the calming benzodiazepines make me paranoid and anxious. Melatonin makes me go into a dreamlike state, but then I startle awake without drifting off. Benadryl works sometimes,... Read more

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2024-09-06T00:05:00-04:00

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There Has Been Another School Shooting

Last updated on: September 6, 2024 at 12:05 am By Mary Pezzulo

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There has been another school shooting. There is always another school shooting. I’m an elder Millennial. I’ve been watching school shootings happen since I was a teenager, when Harris and Klebold murdered thirteen and then themselves. Since then, there have been 416 school shootings. By the time you reads this, there might well be another. This latest shooting happened at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, and the death toll is four. The shooter was a 14-year-old boy. He’s being... Read more

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2024-09-03T21:07:23-04:00

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An Interview, A Bully, and More on that Cemetery Visit

Last updated on: September 3, 2024 at 9:07 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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It’s time to talk about the election again! I’m trying to do one post per week on the upcoming presidential election itself, with separate posts discussing the pro-life movement and the shenanigans in Ohio in far more detail than anybody asked for. But at this point, with sixty-two days to go in the entire election and less than five weeks until early voting starts right here in Steubenville, I may need to cover the news in a couple posts... Read more

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2024-09-03T00:31:19-04:00

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Throw it to Jesus

Last updated on: September 3, 2024 at 12:31 am By Mary Pezzulo

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It started with the pumpkin. Well, it started on Saturday, with an artificial pumpkin. The Gang wanted to play baseball for a change. Adrienne is now surrounded by a gang of teens or pre-teens who like to visit in the afternoons and eat massive quantities of whatever I bake. This Saturday it happened to be blueberry muffins. They each had several, and then the ran off to play in the vacant lot. The gang usually play football and sometimes... Read more

2024-09-01T01:49:30-04:00

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A Touch of Supernatural

Last updated on: September 1, 2024 at 1:49 am By Mary Pezzulo

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I won’t be getting to swim in the lake this year. The lake at the state park wasn’t supposed to close until the eighth, and I thought I’d surely have a breakthrough in replacing the ill-fated car by the eighth, but then I saw that they had to close the lake beach due to bacteria. I don’t know where the bacteria came from. Such a thing can be caused by the water getting to low and too warm after... Read more

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2024-08-30T22:18:55-04:00

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No, Trump isn’t Pro-Life, or Pro-Choice

Last updated on: August 30, 2024 at 10:18 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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Let’s talk about the pro-life movement again. It’s been getting a whole lot of press lately. Just to be clear, before we begin, I’m going to be using the word “fetus” to describe a baby that hasn’t been born yet and “infant” to describe a born baby, because that’s the proper medical term and it’s easier to understand what I’m saying if I do that. I’ve heard some pro-life people say “fetus” is a dehumanizing term and a way of... Read more

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2024-08-29T02:22:15-04:00

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The Cardinal’s Catechism

Last updated on: August 29, 2024 at 2:22 am By Mary Pezzulo

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The cardinal is an avid preacher. As I sat on the sofa, hunched over the laptop, trying to make words appear on a screen, worrying, he came to the back window to admonish me. “Chip chip! Chip chip!” I put down the laptop. I opened my camera app on the phone. I tiptoed to the dining room, hugging the wall like a spy in a terrible movie. I leaned towards the pane just a bit, with my camera out,... Read more

2024-08-29T01:36:19-04:00

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On Root Beer, Dogs, and an Illegal Photo Op?

Last updated on: August 29, 2024 at 1:36 am By Mary Pezzulo

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Alrighty, it’s time for another Election Update! This time for the presidential election as usual! This is the more-or-less weekly feature where I try to enumerate the stories dominating the presidential election news as we barrel toward November. If you want to know my opinions on Ohio news, I’m trying to keep up with that too, and I usually blog separately about what the pro-life movement is up to. Because I am a Catholic blogger here on Patheos, please... Read more

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