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My extended family hates the holidays. Instead of being happy that this is the time of the year to get together, they start dodging phone calls out of fear my mother will invite them over, or ask what they are doing for Christmas. I was looking at this pretty red velvet jumper dress at Chadwicks… Continue reading Wanted: Extended Family For Rent

Well, I was a good citizen do-bee yesterday and researched all the candidates and questions on the ballot. Here in Maryland, the idea of a two-party system is still catching on, so it didn’t surprise me that I couldn’t help the President with a few electoral votes (though I could do my part for the… Continue reading Peony the loser

I am back online. Peony has all these wonderful blogs and I have no comments on anything. Since I have been going to Auriesville, I have been shielded form the heterodoxy of the diocese and the bizarre extremeness of the crazier people at the TLM, so nothing to say there. Since none of my clothes… Continue reading I Have Nothing to Say

there’s something out there that’s happening even as I write, and it’s something really cool and exciting, and I don’t have permission to blab. So I’ll just have to end Friday on a cliffhanger. UPDATE: Steven has the news, so now I can say it too: Davey’s brother or sister is on the way!

Please join us in this month’s novena for the Assumption. Intentions will be listed in the extended entry; please feel free to add your own intentions in the comments box. Nathan is also doing a novena for the Assumption. National Shrine : Assumption Novena Novena Prayer in Honor of the Assumption of Mary Mary, full… Continue reading Assumption Novena: Day 6

Please join us in this month’s novena for the Assumption. Intentions will be listed in the extended entry; please feel free to add your own intentions in the comments box. Nathan is also doing a novena for the Assumption. National Shrine : Assumption Novena Novena Prayer in Honor of the Assumption of Mary Mary, full… Continue reading Assumption Novena: Day 3

A new Aubrey-Maturin book is coming out this fall! No, nobody held a seance to communicate with the late Patrick O’Brian. And they didn’t get someone else to write it. Norton is publishing the unfinished book O’Brian was working on when he died — corrections and all. They aren’t even going to try to make… Continue reading Huzzah!

Teen’s Advocacy, Poetry Touched Many Hearts (WaPo; registration) Mattie’s MDA page Mattie and his mom are Catholic. I have so much respect for them for their bravery in the face of the sorrows that have affected their family, and for their living witness to the value of every life.