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November 02, 2025

It Turned So Cold at the End of the World

It turned so cold at the end of the world. It turned so cold, I...

November 16, 2022

The Darkness Over the Deep

I woke up Monday morning to a gray, flat world. The first half of the...

August 2022

August 08, 2022

At My Family’s Table

There's a game I play sometimes, and the name of the game is "eating."...

May 2022

May 18, 2022

What We Need is Families

I've been helping my friend who needed food last week. Her story is a little...

February 2022

February 17, 2022

Housing, Poverty and the House-Poor Millionaire

I took a neighbor to run her errands the other day. This neighbor is...

November 2021

November 10, 2021

The People With Nowhere to Sleep

The neighbor I met last month moved out of that leaky, moldy house right across...

May 2021

May 24, 2021

If They Don’t Come Back to Mass…

It has been about fifteen months since the first COVID-19 death in America. About fourteen...

February 2021

February 24, 2021

The Grace of God in Scrambled Eggs

It hasn't been the best of weeks. It started with the failed pixie cut....

November 2020

November 27, 2020

A Turkey of a Day

It started when we moved the prize turkey down to the fridge. Michael had dragged...

November 17, 2020

If You’re Going to Give to the Needy…

It's mid-November. Advent is beginning in Orthodox and some Eastern Catholic churches; the rest...

September 2020

September 28, 2020

Small Potatoes

Rose's birthday came and went. We finally gave her the new bike we managed...

July 2020

July 16, 2020

Please Help The Friendship Room Survive The COVID Emergency!

I have a message from The Friendship Room: they need our help, and they need...

May 2020

May 16, 2020

La Belle Eden

I should have been writing this week, but instead I was in the garden....

May 12, 2020

Courage, Cowardice and COVID: Contra R. R. Reno

First Things editor R. R. Reno, who as far as I can tell from his...

May 03, 2020

To All Who Grow And Bake And Sew

This weekend, we all got mad at somebody called Caren White, who wrote an article...

April 2020

April 18, 2020

Compassion is the Strongest Thing

Downtown at the Friendship Room, things are as bleak as ever. It was difficult getting...

April 17, 2020

Spy Wednesday

I came downtown last week on Spy Wednesday, looking a bit like a spy myself...

April 02, 2020

This Is What Gives Me Hope

Our country is awash in chaos and suffering. There is horror every time I...

March 2020

March 27, 2020

To Light One Candle

It is better, they say, to light one candle, than curse the darkness. Better...

March 17, 2020

Sunday Evening in the Plague Time

It was a brilliant, warm Sunday evening, perfect weather for walking, but we did not...

February 2020

February 19, 2020

Beautiful, Broken, and Okay

I have been depressed lately. That's another of the 200 symptoms of fibromyalgia, and not...

August 2019

August 29, 2019

Notes from the Friendship Room

First of all, a few days ago they wrote: "We respectfully request that people...

August 21, 2019

Please Help Angela Bring Her Children Home!

Guys, I have a friend who is in desperate need of help. I've been...

July 2019

July 06, 2019

The Ecology of Motherhood

I took Rosie on a shopping expedition. She spent most of the bus trip chattering...

June 2019

June 23, 2019

Here’s What You Can Do To Help Imprisoned Migrants

Today is the Latin Catholic feast of Corpus Christi. A certain percentage of my fans...

May 2019

May 05, 2019

What Can You Put in a Little Free Grocery?

The Friendship Room's new Little Free Grocery is going wonderfully. Every time I walk by,...

April 2019

April 13, 2019

Help the Friendship Room Stock their Little Free Grocery

Have you remembered your almsgiving penance this Lent? You know, the one you resolved to...

February 2019

February 27, 2019

When the Church is Toxic

I woke up to find out that I had been screenshotted, again. Specifically, this time,...

January 2019

January 24, 2019

Another Urgent Work of Mercy for the Hungry

I have a request from my friend Father Theodosius Walker at the Syriac Orthodox...

December 2018

December 31, 2018

To Whoever Gave Recalled Food to the Homeless

I saw a public status on Facebook from my friends at the Friendship Room...