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Signing on to Be a Parent, Come What May

by applewooddollhospital | June 8, 2026 | Blog, Essays | 0 Comments

A Youtuber I’d never heard of and his wife went insanely viral yesterday. By insanely viral, I mean, I went from having never heard of...

Blessed Are the Peacemakers

by applewooddollhospital | April 19, 2026 | Blog, Essays | 0 Comments

Pope Leo made several anti-war statements. President Trump is in...

When a Jewish Dude on X Reminds One of the Amazing Nature of Christianity

by applewooddollhospital | March 24, 2026 | Blog, Essays | 0 Comments

On X, I saw a post in which a Jew wrote that Jesus was a charlatan. “Jesus being God on Earth made...

Being a Pharisee

by applewooddollhospital | March 10, 2026 | Blog, Essays | 0 Comments

Reading through the Gospel of Mark for Lent, a priest led me to enter more deeply into the scene in which Jesus calls Levi (Mark...

25 January 2025 – What Squirrels do in Winter, How Many Miles is a League, How Much of Spain had been Conquered, the Butchering Bird

Jan 25, 2025

My son asked me why there were squirrels everywhere despite the frigid temperatures. "Don't they hibernate?" He'd seen...

Election Season and the Maccabean Revolt

Nov 5, 2024

Maybe the world isn’t run by lizard people per...

Book Review: Babbitt

Aug 14, 2024

by: Sinclair Lewis Babbit was written in the 1920s by Sinclair Lewis who was a socialist. Normally, a...

10 February 2024 – Bananas, Spring Song by Felix Mendelssohn, the Kingbird, and an Earthworm Dissection

Feb 9, 2024

Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we are frequently looking things...

What if New Year’s Resolutions Are a Misinterpreted Yearning to Participate in the Penitential Season Known as Lent?

Feb 6, 2024

I am happy to say that my area has had a milder than average winter. Most of the highs have been near 40 degrees which has afforded me...

2 February 2024 – Grant’s Real Name, the Definition of ACME and Why Do We Yawn?

Feb 2, 2024

Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we are frequently looking things...

Book Review: The Drama of Atheist Humanism

Feb 1, 2024

by Henri De Lubac Henri de Lubac wrote most of this book while living in...

27 January 2024 – The Holcombe Flag, the Tongue of the Woodpecker, the Squirrel’s Dirty Secret

Jan 26, 2024

Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we are frequently looking things...