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August 2016

August 03, 2016

Loving Your Spouse in the Desert

A few weeks ago I was cleaning the bookshelf in my living room and I...

July 2016

July 30, 2016

When God Laughs

I am off of work today after getting up at 6am since last Sunday for...

July 29, 2016

So I lied to Ya’ll

Awhile back I wrote a blog post saying that I have no parenting advice. Well,...

July 24, 2016

Sometimes God Does Not Let Things Go

I'm going back to waiting tables. I am not really sure how it happened really,...

June 2016

June 17, 2016

Absent Fathers

A few weeks ago I sat in child support court for almost an entire day...

June 15, 2016

Happiness in a Depressing World

I kept reading people's opinions about the Stanford rape case to the point of having...

June 05, 2016

Hotel CaliFacebook

You can log in, but you can never leave. That is exactly how I feel...

May 2016

May 26, 2016

Life: the Gift that Bites You in the Ass

You know how I said that I used to think I knew everything about parenting?...

May 25, 2016

Friendships: the Casualty of Crisis

Here are just a few of the issues that I have been dealing with in...

May 20, 2016

What I’ve Learned about Parenting

I have been a mother since I was 16 years old. I have given birth...

May 17, 2016

Clavius, Patron of the Skeptical

At the heart of Risen is a conversion story. There are a lot of...

May 14, 2016

Abortion, Religion and Politics

So I wrote this blog post the other day, some of you may have read...

May 12, 2016

I am No Longer Pro-life/ **I need to update this post

** I don't know why Patheos is running this blog post today when...

May 11, 2016

Waiting for Redemption

Grief is such a bitch. That’s the only way that I can describe it. In...

May 10, 2016

Taste & See: Help with the Pollution of Noise

When I first got the review copy for Taste & See by Ginny Kubitz Moyer for...

May 09, 2016

Lady Gaga, a Cure for the Mondays

I woke up this morning with a picture of Lady Gaga and a priest and...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

Things I’m Over

#1 The election Look, Hillary is going to win the election and I've known this...

April 27, 2016

Marriages that Can Move Mountains

I just got finished watching Beyonce's visual album Lemonade and I'm blown away. First of...

April 25, 2016

Fear, Discussion and Reality

Yesterday I wrote a post about the bathroom hoopla. It was shared by my fellow...

April 24, 2016

Bathrooms and Pedophiles

I don't care who can use what bathroom, if you let your child go...

April 12, 2016

Today’s Reason for Not Reading Amoris Laetitia

So you know how the Pope released a document about how to love each other...

April 11, 2016

I need to Know how to Love Jackwagons

I had great plans on how exactly Friday morning was going to go down. Pope...

April 04, 2016

Interview: Shaka Senghor author of Writing my Wrongs

I am so happy to be able to share with you my interview with Shaka...

April 03, 2016

Divine Mercy Indeed

Right now in this moment, life is perfect. I had this aha moment sometime during...

April 02, 2016

Authentic Feminism

I have been watching Scandal and other Shondaland shows for a long time wondering what exactly...

March 2016

March 28, 2016

Book Review: Writing my Wrongs by Shaka Senghor

In the pages of Shaka Senghor’s memoir, Writing my Wrongs, I found one theme: the...

March 19, 2016

Lent 2016, When I tried to Give God the Silent Treatment

I have not been to Mass this entire Lent. Part of me thought that this...

March 18, 2016

Book Review: Operating on Faithby Matt Weber

Operating on Faith by Matt Weber is a memoir about suffering, marriage, love and...

March 17, 2016

Voting For Trump, Something I can’t Respect

For years I have been told that voting for the lesser evil is the way...

March 14, 2016

Everything Changes: The Last Year of My 30’s

Tomorrow is my 39th birthday. It will be the first day of the rest...