Folks, there appears to be a WordPress glitch, and anyone who received the “sterilization” post via email this morning got an earlier, unfinished version of the post. Please go directly through the blog www.simchafisher.wordpress.com to see the final version, which represents my point more clearly. Sorry for any confusion. Read more
I don’t know Jason Negri personally, and until his post on Friday I’ve had no reason to think that he isn’t a faithful Catholic. Maybe he was just playing devil’s advocate or being provocative; but for someone who, according to his Inside Catholic profile, is “Assistant Director for the International Task Force on Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide,” he shows a scandalous indifference to the dignity of human life. Here’s what he said when commenting on a story about the marriage... Read more
In case you haven’t noticed, I am going on a short blogging diet (not a complete fast, though) for a week or so. Please don’t leave me! Please be here when I get back! I just have to finish up a big project, and my poor brain is overloaded. Every time I drop in something like “remember to pick up milk,” something else, such as “remember to pick up daughter,” leaks out. So I figured I could free up... Read more
Sorry for the silence. I’m just very, very busy! Hope to have something for you tomorrow. Boy, not even a picture, huh. Read more
Kristen Herrett of St. Monica’s Bridge graciously allowed me to repost her sensible and valuable essay about her letting her sons play with baby dolls. I especially liked the line: “I want them to understand that sometimes we make mistakes, but our love is never a mistake.” Raising Daddies by Kristen Herrett The images in this post are of my sons. With a baby doll. I posted them on Facebook a few weeks ago to mixed reviews. Most thought they... Read more
So, we celebrate Columbus Day here. As I’ve mentioned, it’s not because I think he was a perfect man (there was only one of those. We get His day off school, too), or because I think that his achievement brought unmitigated blessings to mankind. Still and all, I’m glad to be on this continent, I’m glad to have a three-day weekend, and I love me some eye-talian food. On the menu is bruschetta with various disgusting toppings that the kids... Read more
7 things it’s kind of weird that we don’t have The other day, as I was getting all wet, I thought to myself, “Why don’t we have an umbrella?” I guess the real reason is that you can’t have one or two umbrellas for a family of ten, but who wants ten umbrellas? Not us, that’s who. There’s other things that we don’t seem to have, for some reason. I don’t mean things that we have that keep on breaking,... Read more
Belief in God is for the weak, who are just looking for comfort and an escape from reality. Some days, yeah. Probably. But also: You beg God for strength often enough, and eventually you will see that you have none yourself. None. What you are without God is brittle and empty and cold, like dead coral. You can’t even make your own heart beat. You pray for the courage to forgive someone, and you soon notice that you yourself live... Read more
“‘Taint very/ sanitary.” And also: “They– they won’t even let me strangle them!” This concludes today’s “Oh sheesh, I gotta snap out of this” post. Read more
I spend a lot of time thinking what it must be like to be one of my kids. Before you say, “Oh, you’re such a good mommy!” it’s not really like that. If anything, I’m all the more culpable for being so mean sometimes. I actually can really, vividly imagine what it’s like to be, for instance, so so upset about someone saying that “Catsy Cootsy Tatsy Wootsy” is a stinky name for a robot — and yet I still... Read more
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