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April 2025

April 28, 2025
  I want to talk about food pantries again: what they are, how the current...
April 25, 2025
I woke up anxious. I have been at peace since the Easter liturgy, but it's...
April 22, 2025
It was the day of the Great LaBelle Easter Egg Hunt. A friend sent me...
April 21, 2025
I went into Triduum, anxious. I was brought up to think that the Church was...
April 21, 2025
I woke up this morning, and found that Pope Francis had left us. I don't...
April 17, 2025
Charlie has not left. I've never had a cat in my life before. My father...
April 14, 2025
A man came to us for help. He came to all of us: you and...
April 12, 2025
Tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to Jesus, but the Pharisees...
April 11, 2025
  The Dow fell another thousand points today. I don't own any stock. I don't...
April 09, 2025
  Again, I opened my door at the end of the world. I shouldn't have...
April 08, 2025
  You know by now that I'll be painfully honest with you if there's something...
April 06, 2025
  I haven't been called a baby killer or a fake Catholic in the past...
April 03, 2025
  "I think your cat hurt herself!" said Jimmy. "She's holding up one leg." He'd...
April 03, 2025
On Friday, in the rain, I went out to to Jefferson Lake, to see how...

March 2025

March 31, 2025
  Charlie the cat belongs to the Artful Dodgers, but I pretend not to know...
March 28, 2025
I want to remind my readers that our souls will be judged on how we...
March 26, 2025
A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew: And he told them this parable:...
March 26, 2025
I had a little time, so I went to the chapel. It was that same...
March 25, 2025
  Hey everybody, This is not a normal post, this is my every-several-weeks blogkeeping post...
March 20, 2025
  Jimmy's boy wants blackberry bushes. All the children want blackberry bushes, and I'm partial...
March 19, 2025
  As the  world died around me, I went for a drive. It was the...
March 18, 2025
Over the weekend, I got sick. It began with a scratchy throat that quickly turned...
March 15, 2025
Spring came, and nobody could stop it. The winter seemed as if it would go...
March 09, 2025
  When you think of a good man, what do you think of? I don't...
March 06, 2025
  I just want to remind everyone that there is no "rich person" exception to...
March 04, 2025
  A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark: People were bringing children to...
March 03, 2025
  A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke: Jesus told his disciples a...
March 01, 2025
  Again and again, I try to write the way Northern Appalachia feels, here and...

February 2025

February 27, 2025
I've had to take a hiatus from reporting on the pro-life movement. My veteran readers...
February 22, 2025
  Jesus and I went for a hike, to see the last of the ice....
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