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April 2016

April 12, 2016
  Prompt: Serious or Silly The idea starts like a light Like the green light...
April 11, 2016
Mondays can be a pain They shake us out of Sunday’s calm and remind us...
April 10, 2016
Prompt: Emotion   Happiness is waking up on Sunday, the sunlight streaming into your bedroom....
April 09, 2016
  Ode to The Library Dear Library, Thank you for being my favorite hiding place...
April 08, 2016
Prompt: Doodle poem Doodles I liked to draw little five pointed stars Pentacles, enclosed in...
April 07, 2016
  Prompt: Urban In my perfect life, I don’t have to drive anywhere. I’d be...
April 06, 2016
Prompt: Write an ekphrastic poem. An ekphrastic poem is a poem inspired by art. Inspired...
April 05, 2016
Prompt: Experience/Inexperience Most jobs have “experience” as a requirement People casting out lines, learning the...
April 04, 2016
Last night I had a dream. I was travelling somewhere. The sky was clear. The...
April 03, 2016
  The first time I said those three words to somebody I was just sixteen...
April 02, 2016
The diagnosis began with a test. I was called out of class and was asked...
April 01, 2016
  Fools for The Word A Series of Limericks All those who are gifted with...

March 2016

March 31, 2016
I heard about Jane Wants a Boyfriend from Eliza Dushku's Twitter. As soon as I googled...
March 31, 2016
  I’ve been a fan of superheroes since I was a kid. I always held...
March 29, 2016
We live in a pretty cynical world at the moment. The cynicism in our world...
March 25, 2016
  Author note: This is a guest post written by my friend Kristin from Austin...
March 24, 2016
I'm going to combine the last parts of the Seven Last Words because I feel...
March 23, 2016
"I thirst." - John 19:28 Out of the Seven Last Words, this one is my...
March 22, 2016
Catholics get mistaken for being masochists a lot. We put a lot of emphasis on guilt...
March 21, 2016
When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he...
March 18, 2016
During one of my college retreats, I underwent my first Ignatian exercise and imagined myself...
March 17, 2016
  "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."-Luke 23:34 Whenever I heard...
March 16, 2016
Since the official date of Mother Teresa's canonization has been announced, I want to look...
March 15, 2016
I never thought I would be so annoyed about setting the clocks forward. Since I...
March 14, 2016
Last weekend, I was away on a 2-day Ignatian retreat. This retreat was unique from...
March 10, 2016
Tomorrow and Saturday, I will be on retreat and it'll be a different experience from...
March 09, 2016
  I am a woman facing uncertainty Sometimes my best laid plains are just castles...
March 08, 2016
My current favorite song from Taylor Swift is not one of her big hit singles....
March 07, 2016
From Heart of Mary Women's Fellowship: Who is Mary Magdalene? She’s a saint that’s shrouded...
March 04, 2016
From Heart of Mary Women's Fellowship: The hard part of living a Christian life isn’t...
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