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September 2019

September 02, 2019
One of the things I’m most grateful for, especially when life hits me low, is...

August 2019

August 25, 2019
My last blast from the past from my old blog, Into the Mysterious Dark. You...
August 25, 2019
This is another piece from my old blog, Into the Mysterious Dark. You can read...
August 23, 2019
This was first published on my old blog, Into the Mysterious Dark. You can read...
August 05, 2019
For years, I just thought I had something akin to ADHD. I could not focus...
August 04, 2019
There have been two mass shootings in the US in the past 24 hours. When...
August 03, 2019
  The following is an excerpt from a journal entry I wrote. Rereading it, I...

July 2019

July 27, 2019
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank was, next to Tolkien’s The Lord...
July 21, 2019
It is the apparently tenuous question so much of the debate with the sex abuse...
July 14, 2019
She was ripped from her bed, bruised and torn and bleeding from where they'd smacked...
July 09, 2019
I don’t usually write when I’m this angry. Healthy ways of dealing with anger is...
July 07, 2019
  Welcome to Strange Enchantments. Our brief moments together tonight are devoted to the spells...
July 02, 2019
The juxtaposition of faith and life hit me like a slap to the face when...

June 2019

June 23, 2019
You were presented in the beginning As pristine, unblemished, pure one We were instructed so...
June 18, 2019
  Paying Prolife Protesters Back in August (or perhaps even earlier) I started to see...
June 02, 2019
Escaping the world and its horrors has always been on my purview of things that...
June 01, 2019
The first time I watched Guardians of the Galaxy, I almost had to stop the...

May 2019

May 10, 2019
***TRIGGER WARNING: ABORTION*** A lot had been building up to that moment. My mind was...
May 06, 2019
  I was six years old, watching Ghostbusters. It's near the end of the movie,...

April 2019

April 26, 2019
  I released the cricket from its cage After being deaf to its music Its...
April 21, 2019
  The womb of the earth convulsed as He gave a sharp inhale Sitting upright...
April 20, 2019
It’s a magnificent day in Wisconsin, all sunshine and gentle winds and temperate air. Not...
April 19, 2019
Christ died today. I will not go into the mechanics, the psychological and physical torment,...
April 19, 2019
  I remember a few years ago, my mom talking about the priest sex abuse...
April 14, 2019
I can already feel your venomous fangs dripping to latch onto my neck after reading...
April 12, 2019
There is one thing that I really did not like about the film Unplanned. At the...
April 11, 2019
I swooned as I read the words: Thus amongst the blessings of marriage, the child...
April 06, 2019
    Yesterday, there were concrete bags in place of my hands and feet and shoulders ...
April 03, 2019
Crocus budding in snow. Source: pxhere   Editor's note: My good friend Maiasson sent me...

March 2019

March 31, 2019
I was a college student when I first learned that St. Francis of Assisi had...
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