Monthly Archives: January 2013
Catholicism in the trenches
Fear not those who argue, but those who dodge. - Dale Carnegie
Consider this for a moment. What if (and I know this sounds crazy)...
Disconnected Harmony
When the biggest of my little brothers read The Hunger Games his main complaint with the story was that it was not realistic. Obviously,...
Lancing the Wound of Sin
“Always remember that God sees everything.” - Padre Pio
My husband used to be a biker—not the Harley kind, but the bicycle kind. He used...
The long distance relationship
In August of 2011, I was having a long, deep, interesting conversation—the type women often do–about my deal breakers for a dating relationship. No...
Of Siberian Exiles and Feistiness
Life is a funny thing, isn't it? We walk around assuming that everyone’s had the same, or similar, experiences as ourselves—growing up in a peaceful home...
Helpless, but not hopeless
Yesterday I was sitting in a fairly uncomfortable chair in the dentist’s office with my mouth full of dental equipment and a couple pairs...
The god of the human body
A while back I worked with a gent whose health took an unexpected turn for the worse. Conventional and unconventional doctors were unable to...
Elementary heroes
Every hero in every story worth telling has at least one thing in common with every other decent hero ever written. Each one must...
Honey, I hate you.
A few weeks before Christmas, as I was working on something across the room from him, my boyfriend decided he was going to get...
Mary and Spiritual Motherhood
January 1 was the Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God, a sort of liturgical Mother’s Day, as we highlighted one of Mary’s many titles:...
