My Patient Husband speaks…
…about the saddest thing he’s ever done. And it was kind-of my fault.
Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
…about the saddest thing he’s ever done. And it was kind-of my fault.
Dear Emily, Happy ninth birthday, sweetie. Nine years ago, I went into the hospital to have you. Nine years ago, you lived for two precious hours in our arms,and you got to meet your immediate family, and then I had to…
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Tomorrow would have been Emily Rose‘s ninth birthday, except that Monday will be the 9th anniversary of her death. She lived for one hour and fifty-three minutes. In that whole nightmare of diagnosis, preparation and birth, I didn’t get the…
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Well, if you can call it “music.” It’s my music. First bitlet: Yesterday’s entry reviewed the Daughtry album, Leave This Town. In order to review it, I listened to the album twice on the 14th and once on the fifteenth….
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The last two albums I’ve purchased have been by Chris Daughtry. I’m not sure if that makes me a fan. I pre-ordered “Leave This Town,” his second album, when I found it available on iTunes. It was released on Tuesday,…
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Julie at Happy Catholic has an awesome reflection on the Book of Joshua (the real one, not the one by Joseph Girzone) and it’s worth reading. It also made me think more about literalism as it pertains to the Bible….
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I didn’t write it, just linking to it. Top 10 Misconceptions About the Catholic Church It goes nicely with “If you’ve been attacked for being Catholic.”
On Saturday, I went back to the heart-reading priest for Confession again to confess that I’d been an idiot about the forum I left last week, that I’d given it too much importance. I probably didn’t have to, but I…
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Sunday morning, my Patient Husband kicked me out to go biking (the only benefit of going to the late Mass: time to do things beforehand.) If you remember, last time I went through the dirt trails at the park and…
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This won’t make any sense at all unless you know something about our family: we reference everything. If we’ve watched it once, heard it, read it — we quote from it. Because we’re geeks, frequently the things we’re quoting are…
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