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April 2020

April 04, 2020
  I woke up afraid, as usual. I don't know if any writing fully conveys...
April 03, 2020
It was a steaming warm, cloyingly humid Saturday afternoon. It started out sunny, but then...
April 02, 2020
  Our country is awash in chaos and suffering. There is horror every time I...

March 2020

March 30, 2020
This morning I opened Twitter to check in on my friends; I ended up watching...
March 27, 2020
  It is better, they say, to light one candle, than curse the darkness. Better...
March 26, 2020
When I was a teenager, I was homeschooled in a deeply conservative, deeply pro-life homeschool...
March 25, 2020
The first time I forgot about the coronavirus, was yesterday. That was when I got...
March 25, 2020
  The homeless are still attempting to shelter-in-place on Skid Row. They cannot practice social...
March 24, 2020
  I went for a walk. The governor says we're allowed to go for a...
March 23, 2020
This afternoon I came across an article by R. R. Reno, the supposedly pro-life editor...
March 23, 2020
I want to show you a video. This is Ms. Shirley Raines, who usually sets...
March 21, 2020
The COVID-19 rates are spiking all over the country, and it's only going to get...
March 21, 2020
I am watching, helpless, as the world ends-- not for the first time. When I...
March 19, 2020
Yesterday was the last day of winter. I'm told that March 20th is the earliest...
March 19, 2020
On this solemnity of Saint Joseph, I want to honor the people who are doing...
March 17, 2020
It was a brilliant, warm Sunday evening, perfect weather for walking, but we did not...
March 14, 2020
  I have a couple of short blogkeeping and Pezzulo-household-keeping notes I want to give...
March 14, 2020
It's Saturday, when I would usually be running out the door to a vigil Mass,...
March 13, 2020
When I took the bus home yesterday after my gory grocery store misadventure, one passenger...
March 13, 2020
  COVID-19 has come to Ohio. It's all over the country now. Last I heard...
March 11, 2020
I keep saying I hope that COVID-19 just goes away, and it keeps on not...
March 10, 2020
  As some of you might recall, I've been following the case of Pastor Everett...
March 09, 2020
Last week I said that for all I knew, COVID-19 would just go away. I...
March 06, 2020
  Hi, Folks. I'm using the photo of the gerbera daisies again, and you know...
March 05, 2020
It was gray, cold, and wet again. It has been gray, cold, and wet, for...
March 04, 2020
When I share stories like the one about the Cherry Boutique, or the trouble with...
March 02, 2020
When I was a teenager, I knew a family that was staunchly pro-life: they prayed...
March 01, 2020
It happened again this Lent as always: the anxious Ash Wednesday discussion about fasting and...
March 01, 2020
  We were at the Wellsburg Apple Festival, on a warm fall day. I don't...

February 2020

February 26, 2020
  By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept     when we remembered Zion.  There...
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