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Hi there! I’m Veronica, the newest contributor to The Shoeless Banshee blog.  I’ve guest blogged...

Psychological Trigger Warning: abuse, domestic violence, PTSD, victim-blaming PSA from a chronic-abuse and -trauma survivor...

This is a list of resources for those seeking to understand more fully the Catholic...

  Her name is Nikki Addimando and she is a victim.  For years she braved...

I sit tonight, eyelids drooping, as I ponder the week this has been. For those...

Image belongs to Abby Weiss. She sent it to me this week in celebration of...

    Two days ago, I was at the gas station when my friend and...

Billy Joel and Glass Houses Glass Houses Most of us, at some point in life,...

***Important Update On This Conflict*** Dave Armstrong of Patheos Catholic read this response tonight and...

Librarian Witch Bitch Aesthetic   This week I formally came out on Facebook and through...

Today is the celebration of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, in the...

This week, Catholic mommy blogger Kendra from Catholic All Year wrote an article lamenting that...

I worked last night, so I missed the Superbowl. Also, I do not particularly enjoy...

On this past December 31, 2019, I decided that in this New Year, new decade,...

A transsexual friend asked me, “Will they love me when she’s gone? Will all the...

  Social media is at its best a helpful tool and at its worst a...

  Content warning: discussion includes domestic violence, PTSD, gun violence, and stalking. . . ....

  ***Content Warning: Child Loss***   This spring, I spent way too much time with...

Two days ago I celebrated my 25th birthday. To mark this important milestone, I finally...

  As a young stay-at-home mother in the rural Midwest, I find a lot of...

   Back in 2014 when artist Kesha Rose Serbert (known as Kesha)  entered rehab, I...

A few months ago (perhaps in July) I stumbled upon a reflection on God as...

It is the apparently tenuous question so much of the debate with the sex abuse...

I don’t usually write when I’m this angry. Healthy ways of dealing with anger is...

  Welcome to Strange Enchantments. Our brief moments together tonight are devoted to the spells...

You were presented in the beginning As pristine, unblemished, pure one We were instructed so...

  Paying Prolife Protesters Back in August (or perhaps even earlier) I started to see...

***TRIGGER WARNING: ABORTION*** A lot had been building up to that moment. My mind was...

It’s a magnificent day in Wisconsin, all sunshine and gentle winds and temperate air. Not...

  I remember a few years ago, my mom talking about the priest sex abuse...