If it makes me happy, is it God’s will?
If it makes you happy, it can’t be that bad. If it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad? Sheryl Crow I have this little prayer card that came from I don’t know where, but I keep it propped up in the window above my kitchen sink so that sometimes my wandering, dish scrubbing eye might land on it, and I would remember to pray it. It’s a memento mori kind of prayer, one meant to invoke a consciousness of one’s mortality and the need to ask God for the graces for this moment, right now,…
The freedom to choose life
A woman who is legally free to procure an abortion is not more free, but less; her circumstance are instantly tried, sentenced, and executed by the court of public opinion, almost from the moment of conception. The…
Housekeeping notes from a sabbatical
I’m just going to go ahead and assume we’d be mutually bored to tears by the explanations and equivocations I could give you for why it’s been 4 months since I last laid finger to keyboard and…
Summer Summery
I almost titled this post a midsummer night’s scream so, you’re welcome. The “baby” did wake up about eleventy times last night, however, so I would have been justified in so doing. Also, hi, hello. I’ve all…
Musings from a lost year + life lately
Every time I’ve thought about sitting down to write – which hasn’t been all that frequently, truth be told – I’ve been deterred by the most germane of happenings. An overly full diaper. A vacuum needing to…
Got a saintly dog (or a blessed cat?)
This is incredibly dorky but…that has rarely stopped me from making many of the choices I’ve made in life. So here goes: I was reading one of my perennial favorites, Sancta Nomina, and I got to wondering…
Hell week preceedeth Holy Week
Coming in hot on Spy Wednesday (tl;dr: round up “30 pieces of silver” to hide in various spots around the house and turn your kids loose for a survival of the fittest scramble to remember.) Or if…
Felony most fowl
Gosh you guys, I think the hardest thing about getting back into a regular blogging schedule is going to be the title crafting. Headlines have always been a real Achilles heel for me because gosh darn it…
Things to do on the internet that aren’t social media
Lent is upon us. It’s here. I’ve messed it up already by mindlessly popping handfuls of cashews and pumpkin seeds into my mouth at various times during this Ash Wednesday, so things can only improve from here.…
February made me shiver {7QT}
Soooooo, pretty chill to like, write on a super controversial topic and then go dark for a month…err, 5 weeks. I used to mourn my favorite bloggers as they would reach a critical mass of kids or…
In which I commit the unforgivable faux pas and talk about vaccines on the internet.
Hey, I’ve done yoga, I’ve done Harry Potter, so why not complete the trifecta of taboo? Lately I’ve been observing a curious trend both online and in conversation with friends and strangers alike. Call it another casualty…