Ten Teenagers In One Room For a Year.

Because I am my mother’s daughter, I frequently choose to do things for no other reason than a patronizing exasperation at how poorly someone else is doing them, and a conviction that I am the only person who can do it better, or at all. I am of the oh-for-heaven’s-sake-just- give-me-that-and-let-me-do-it-for-you school of . . [...]

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The Breastplate of Saint Patrick

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! While not a fan of green beer, I do love Ireland, and I do hate snakes a great deal (see previous blog post titled “Childhood Psychoses”), so St. Patrick is cool with me. And in the midst of all the leprechaun hats and cheap green plastic shamrocks, I think it’s worth [...]

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Two Poems about Francis of Assisi I Did Not Write

I bought this amazing book called Francis and Clare in Poetry from St. Anthony Messenger Press while I was at a retreat a few weeks ago, and it’s got some seriously awesome stuff in it – William Carlos Williams, Longfellow, Louise Erdrich, Dante, Seamus Heaney, Billy Collins, William Wordsworth . . . I’m loving it. [...]

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