Valentine’s Day is on Ash Wednesday this year. At first thought, they seem like an unlikely...
Essays
What if New Year’s Resolutions Are a Misinterpreted Yearning to Participate in the Penitential Season Known as Lent?
I am happy to say that my area has had a milder than average winter. Most of the highs have been near 40...
Perhaps Sliced Bread Isn’t the Best Thing
“It’s the best thing since sliced...
A Lesson in Forgiveness and Humility and Letting Go of a 35 Year Long Grudge
It’s been 35 years and I have finally forgiven my 5th grade teacher. She held a writing competition near the end of the...
Saint Michael’s Lent is an Oasis of Atonement in the Liturgically Ordinary Desert
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What if Pagan Festivals are Just Misinterpreted Yearnings for Christian Feast Days?
It feels like the climate of Mercury outside, only hotter. The sun is out from practically sunrise to sunset. And the lightning bugs have started appearing as soon as I tell my kids it’s time for them to go to bed causing long battles that always...
Accused of Being a ‘Becky’ While Minding My Own Business
I pass by the local middle school on my run route every morning. Yesterday, I ran by as they were doing some sort of drill outside. Several of the middle school males took a break from telling each other doody jokes and giving each other dutch...
A Sourdough Loaf of Lies and a Journey Towards Food Independence
My grocery store made a bold claim. Printed on the sticker of several loaves in the bakery were the words “Tastes just like San Francisco Sourdough Bread”. For a few years,...
What If Staring at People While They Sleep Isn’t Necessarily Psychopathic but a Misinterpreted Yearning to See the Sleeper as They Will Look When Perfected?
I share a common interest with psychopaths: watching people sleep. Though, I can’t be sure our motives for watching people are the same. And I don’t sneak into other people’s...
Pulling Myself Out of a Funk to Get Back into the Race That is Lent
I had some sort of respiratory virus at the beginning of Lent that knocked me down for a week and then kept me lethargic and coughing for another week. I’m glad it happened during Lent...
Putting the Hallowed back in Halloween
My Childhood Halloweens As a kid in a non-religious household, I enjoyed all the secular aspects of Halloween. the art projects at school my mother putting up a few decorations picking a costume my mother refusing to buy it so then making a costume going door to...
I Am an Extrovert When I Am Running
I always run from social situations and so I found it odd that I am so social while running. As I waved and yelled out “Good Morning” to the neighbor lady across the street whom I run past while...