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2023-01-23T01:10:39-04:00

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The Scrapper

Last updated on: January 23, 2023 at 1:10 am By Mary Pezzulo

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The scrapper was in the alley, dragging a great big piece of iron. Holly the Witch was supposed to be taking a Zoom class, but she hadn’t been able to get in, so she was sitting around her house with nothing do, when she saw him. He had the bars from a metal bed frame over one shoulder, carrying them somewhere, not very fast. She went out. “Do you want my cans?” She washes out all her ginger ale cans... Read more

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2023-01-19T16:57:46-04:00

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The Hawk and the Songbirds

Last updated on: January 19, 2023 at 4:57 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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I haven’t seen the hawk since Sunday. I’d asked, for a joke, if I could put some beef jerky in a bird feeder to befriend the red-shouldered hawk and see him regularly. But it turns out that the real way to attract hawks is to put up a songbird feeder, and the hawks come to eat the songbirds. I didn’t like that much. The hawk was fascinating, but I love songbirds as well. They remind me of my grandfather. I... Read more

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2023-01-18T16:23:59-04:00

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More on the Laicization, and the Lies, of Frank Pavone

Last updated on: January 18, 2023 at 4:23 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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Here we go again, talking about my least favorite subject, the former priest Frank Pavone. As we all know, Frank was laicized by the Vatican for disobedience and “blasphemous communications on social media” late last year. He was still celebrating Mass and presenting himself as a priest for weeks after his laicization, but he’s claimed that is because he didn’t get the memo. Now, speaking to the Catholic News Agency, Pavone admits that that might be a fib. It’s the... Read more

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2023-01-17T01:39:11-04:00

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The Red-Shouldered Hawk on the Anxiety Walk

Last updated on: January 17, 2023 at 1:39 am By Mary Pezzulo

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I was on my daily Anxiety Walk, when I saw the hawk again. The Anxiety Walk is a regular feature in January. The lack of sunlight, color and things to do wreaks havoc with my mental health struggles. I have to drop what I’m doing and get away from the computer or I’ll go down a black hole, googling questions I already know the answer to for an hour at a time, trying to reassure myself but only terrorizing myself... Read more

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2023-01-15T15:32:06-04:00

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Where You See the Dove

Last updated on: January 15, 2023 at 3:32 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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John the Baptist knew Christ was the Lamb of God, because he saw the Spirit as a dove. I keep thinking about that this afternoon. It’s what’s keeping me from panic. Religious trauma looks different on different days. Being a recovering victim of spiritual abuse has may different faces. Today, it looked like being afraid of a Gospel reading. I read the Gospel readings, and I got scared. There is John the Baptist, testifying. “Behold the Lamb of God,... Read more

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2023-01-14T23:07:45-04:00

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A Family, A Museum, and an All-Out Effort

Last updated on: January 14, 2023 at 11:07 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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You might have seen that I ended up in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette last weekend, talking about the Lost Girl‘s children and our trip to the museum. I was honored to be able to contribute. It’s no secret to anyone who reads this blog that I absolutely love the Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History. It was a dream come true to be able to write about the Carnegie Museums for a Pittsburgh newspaper. I love everything about Pittsburgh... Read more

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2023-01-13T15:08:56-04:00

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In a January Way

Last updated on: January 13, 2023 at 3:08 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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January is an agnostic time. You’d be hard pressed to profess anything, in January, in the Ohio Valley, when the earth and sky are a uniform shade of gray-brown slush whether it snows or not. There’s been next to no snow so far. The weather is lukewarm, nauseating, too cool to have the windows open but too warm for the ground to freeze. The sun doesn’t shine in the few hours it’s up over the horizon at all. There is... Read more

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2023-01-11T15:50:41-04:00

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On Exodus 90 and the Question of Spousal Rape

Last updated on: January 11, 2023 at 3:50 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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Yesterday, my social media was flooded with a barrage of outrage over an outfit called Exodus 90. What is Exodus 90? As far as I can tell, Exodus 90 is the kind of thing I would have thought was cool back when I went to Franciscan University. It’s an app you can download to your phone for a fee, which guides you through 90 days of prayer and asceticism. There are requirements for what not to eat and drink,... Read more

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2023-01-10T18:18:08-04:00

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The Raising of Serendipity

Last updated on: January 10, 2023 at 6:18 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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Two days after Christmas, I trudged downtown in my big snow boots, to say goodbye to Serendipity. The ground was mud and slush. The sky was drizzle and slush. The whole world had the consistency of a bowl of overcooked rice abandoned in the back of the fridge. Everyone I saw was miserable in that way you can only be miserable two days after Christmas on a slushy afternoon. I was the most miserable of all. I had already paid... Read more

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2023-01-10T15:19:36-04:00

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The Lost Girl Finds a House

Last updated on: January 10, 2023 at 3:19 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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Last week, my friend The Lost Girl thought she had found a house. As you may recall, she’d been told that she was second in line for the place if the people ahead of her didn’t want it. Last week, she found out that the people ahead had dropped out of the running. She thought that was a “yes.” She started asking around for totes and boxes to pack up her children’s toys. She called the water department and got... Read more

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