and start hyperventilating into them like I just did. You guys, SIMCHA FREAKING FISHER IS NOW OFFICIALLY A CATHOLIC PATHEOS BLOGGER!!!!!!!!! Am I screaming? You betcha. This it the lady who brought us the Pants Pass, y’all. We loose heretical hell-bound big-bottomed pant-loving Catholic women owe her a great debt of gratitude. Also, she writes [...]

Growing up, my dad would leave post-it notes stuck to the bathroom mirror that my sister and I shared. I would read them as I got ready for school, smiling at my dad’s “I love you!” or “Have a great day!” or “I’m so proud of you!” scrawled in his backward-leaning left-handed print. When I [...]

There’s another aspect to this whole sex ed question that no one is talking about. We all know what we want for our kids, even if we disagree about how to get there. But what about the other kids? I’ve been coming at this whole thing from the point of view of a Catholic, naturally, [...]

  Really, I should have known way before Saturday that my little blogging “break” was doomed to failure. I should have known the first day I started it. It was Monday, the first day of Sienna’s last week of school. I sent her off with a smile and then turned to my three other kids [...]

I gave it a go. It was a good go, because it taught me something about myself that I know, that I have learned again and again, but that I apparently will never stop needing to re-learn. W. Somerset Maugham said, “We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.” [...]

Last month was a spectacular blogging month, and as a direct result my house and kids basically fell to pieces. So I’m taking a few weeks off to remove socks from the ceiling fan, peel stickers off the furniture, and reassure them that my ASUS does not displace them in my affection. Although the Ogre [...]

You know, I thought the whole, “I’ll pick the winner cause it’s my blog, beyotches” thing would be fun. It wasn’t, not so much. I loved all the comments a lot, and some made me pee from laughing (I suck at kegels, okay, get off my back), and then I had this total crisis because [...]

I almost forgot! Sam, Elizabeth, and I are going to be on Sheila’s show on Relevant Radio again tonight, still talking about sex, because these sex posts are generating lots of interest, debate, and clickity click-clicks. Just in case you were confused, I am a Professional Catholic, and I’m only in this for the piles [...]

#7 Over at her place, Jen is talking about how squats are impossible. Not like they’re hard, but like, they are completely at odds with the laws of gravity. “If you move into a position like you’re sitting on a chair without actually having a chair behind you, you will FALL DOWN. This is not [...]