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April 2026

April 30, 2026
  The sunflowers will not stop. In 2023, I planted a few different varieties of...
April 27, 2026
  I don't want to talk about modesty. In fact, I refuse to talk about...
April 24, 2026
I can't tell you what it's like to be a good Christian. But I can...
April 22, 2026
I saw that photo, of an IDF soldier smashing a crucifix in Lebanon. I saw...
April 18, 2026
  I'm calling the sunflowers "The LaBelle Special." Sunflowers are a flower that cross pollenates...
April 16, 2026
  I want to address a few misconceptions about Catholicism that I've seen all around...
April 16, 2026
  There'd been a bit of an emergency downtown, because the  derelict building behind a...
April 13, 2026
  We need to talk about the spat between the Trump Administration and the Pope...
April 10, 2026
We are God-People We went on an adventure-- Adrienne, Jimmy's boy, and me. For a...
April 08, 2026
  I wanted to speak more about the president's threats against Iran and his subsequent...
April 07, 2026
  As I am writing this, it is three o'clock Eastern daylight time, in the...
April 07, 2026
  They discovered graves on the hillside just down the street. Down on the south...
April 02, 2026
  You didn't kill Jesus. You couldn't have. Jesus is the only begotten Son of...

March 2026

March 30, 2026
  Hi friends, this isn't a real blog post. This is my every-few-months boilerplate where...
March 30, 2026
I went into Holy Week, a little sad and apprehensive, not knowing what to say....
March 23, 2026
I went for a hike with Adrienne, and Jimmy's boy. We went to Frankfort Mineral...
March 20, 2026
  There were exactly two things on my to-do list. I was going to sit...
March 16, 2026
  Jimmy's boy knocked at the door while I was taking a nap, and then...
March 13, 2026
  It's not a good news cycle, for someone who was raised in an apocalyptic...
March 11, 2026
  There comes a point at which, if you can't see how something is wrong,...
March 08, 2026
There were still two weeks of winter left, but the air was was so warm,...
March 02, 2026
Hi, kids! This is your old aunt Mary with a cautionary tale from the distant...

February 2026

February 27, 2026
I guess I should have expected everything to go wrong that afternoon. The art class...
February 23, 2026
  I was born in 1984. I'll be forty-two this fall. That makes me a...
February 20, 2026
I don't have anything easy to tell you. I have been healing in public, or...
February 14, 2026
The immigrants in detention are starting to die. Or, rather, they've surely been dying for...
February 08, 2026
The brightest day there could possibly be, is a cold bright day. The strongest sun...
February 07, 2026
  There's going to be a thaw next week. All of this snow will turn...
February 02, 2026
  There is something I've learned, after writing so much about the Catholic priest abuse...

January 2026

January 31, 2026
We had a bit of weather last weekend. I mentioned in my last post that...
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