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December 2022

December 17, 2022

In Little Things

I talked with Holly the Witch. She saw the woman who used to live in...

December 09, 2022

While I Watched the Parade

Last weekend, while I was at the parade with my daughter, my friends in Columbus...

October 2022

October 16, 2022

My Thoughts On the Proposed Merger Between the Dioceses of Steubenville and Columbus

You have probably heard that the current bishop of Steubenville, Jeffery M. Monforton, has officially...

July 2022

July 29, 2022

To A Hiding Place

  Where do you go to hide when you aren't wanted? I have been looking...

June 2022

June 18, 2022

A Weekend Pilgrimage

  This weekend I drove to Columbus by myself, repenting. To repent means to turn...

September 2021

September 20, 2021

Seven to Seventy is the Way Home

  I dreamed I was trying to get to Columbus. My first morning back in...

September 17, 2021

I Wanted To Tell You About Columbus

  I wanted to tell you about Columbus. I just got back. I was going...

June 2020

June 10, 2020

If You Need A Statue To Teach You History…

We're getting a lot of news now about municipal statues being torn down, because they...

June 07, 2020

The Price of Ordinary

Columbus, Ohio, is an ordinary place. I'm not using "ordinary" as a pejorative there; I'm...

June 01, 2020

Pentecost Roses

  We went for another hike this afternoon. It was cooler than it's been, and...

November 2019

November 06, 2019

Mrs. Laurent Goes to Purgatory: A Meditation for All Souls

  From the third to the fifth grade, I attended a school called Our Lady...

October 2019

October 14, 2019

Why Do We Cling To Columbus? What Do We Have To Lose?

I was pleased to see that the whole-life social justice pro-life organization Rehumanize International had...

January 2019

January 12, 2019

Steubenville? Or Ohio?

  Every time Franciscan University shows up in the news for doing something awful, I...

October 2018

October 08, 2018

The Shadows in Columbus

I think I was in the first grade. It was 1992, and I lived in...

March 2017

March 17, 2017

Irish By Blood

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

November 2016

November 29, 2016

Joe and Mr. Rashid: An Annotated Interreligious Dialogue

Don't you just hate it when a non-Christian gives a better Christian witness than someone...

November 28, 2016

Anything Is Likely To Happen In Columbus

I just turned on the computer to find out that there's been a mass attack on...

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