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March 2019

March 10, 2019
  Content Warning: language, stereotypical hateful opinion of Thoreau   I saw an ad today...
March 06, 2019
Grief. Source: Wikipedia Commons   Once, in trauma therapy last year, my counselor mentioned to...

February 2019

February 28, 2019
  Trigger Warning: suicide . . . .   The neighbor upstairs killed herself last...
February 15, 2019
This review by a guest contributor goes into details that are spoilers for the trilogy...

January 2019

January 20, 2019
  On New Year’s Eve I spent some time reflecting, and I wrote my thoughts...
January 14, 2019
    My mom and I were just discussing the bizarre crises of identity this...
January 13, 2019
  My freshman year at Franciscan University of Steubenville, I was required to read books...

December 2018

December 27, 2018
This isn't what I thought I'd be publishing today.   I'd planned to publish the...
December 25, 2018
I’m not the first person that’s uttered the words, “It’s just not the same without...
December 02, 2018
  One of the most surprising things about living in a foreign country is how...

November 2018

November 18, 2018
I think they live in the past here. A large comfy city built of small...
November 15, 2018
  I've been thinking about witches since autumn began.   I never much liked or...

October 2018

October 16, 2018
    Jessica Mesman Griffith has got me started on a horror binge recently.  ...
October 12, 2018
  Where were you, He asked me, when my little ones came to you, broken,...

September 2018

September 17, 2018
Hi y'all. No, I'm not dead yet. Yes, I've been a horrible blogger for nearly...

July 2018

July 26, 2018
  Editor's note: At The Shoeless Banshee we have published some strong women's responses (here...
July 25, 2018
  ***Trigger Warning--Self-Harm***   My first tattoo was my golden birthday present to myself (when...
July 22, 2018
  *UPDATE* Dr. Jack Barto, the pediatrician who molested me as a child and later...
July 20, 2018
  Yesterday an image showed up in my Facebook newsfeed: overlaid in front of a...
July 19, 2018
  Grace scares me.   There it is, in black and white. I don’t know...
July 05, 2018
  There wasn’t a cloud in the blue sky as my friend and I drove...
July 03, 2018
  Good men, I’m guessing you have at least one friend in your life who...

June 2018

June 25, 2018
  How can the baptized claim to welcome Christ if they close the door to...
June 23, 2018
“No, sweetie, I’m sure that she doesn’t want your shoe.”   The toddler sitting behind...

May 2018

May 29, 2018
Image Source:  walknboston on flickr     Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in...
May 23, 2018
  Several weeks ago, I read a question-and-answer column in our local Catholic newspaper (or...
May 21, 2018
  What comes to your mind when you hear the phrase “Traditional Femininity”?   Maybe...
May 15, 2018
  As you may or may not have noticed, I was on a lengthy sabbatical...
May 01, 2018
The Washington Examiner recently published a piece on the recent controversy over the failure of...
May 01, 2018
  I’ve been recently privileged to grow close to Franciscan University alumna Theresa Williams. She...
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