What to Write
When there is so much to say? I have the unique position of being on the other side of a ‘hockey stick effect’ as my boss calls it, that moment when internet traffic spikes in a dramatic and upward...
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Happy Earth Day, readers! Surprised to hear that from yours truly? Well, let the record state that while I remain miserably apathetic about recycling (because it’s stupid and it uses more energy to...
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Guilty
Because you can’t murder babies with scissors in America and get away with it. At least not forever. We’re coming for you next, Planned Parenthood. Justice has been served.
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Supporting Mary’s Shelter
You know what I neglected to mention at some point during this very Marian past work week, bookended by the Immaculate Conception and Guadalupe? (hangs head in idiot shame) Mary’s Shelter. It’s a home...
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What ongoing conversion looks like, in spandex
Well, that was a little weird…I never imagined the post I’d finally have to disable comments for – after all the crazy, controversial, hard to swallow stuff we’ve discussed here over the years – would...
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Boiling frogs and silent lambs
The last thing I want to write about, now that my belly is proceeding me into every room by approximately 2.3 seconds, is wholesaling baby parts. But dammit if that’s not what’s trending in my newsfeed...
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Be still, and know
I am not a good waiter. (I was, don’t get me wrong, an excellent food service professional back in the day. But that’s not the kind of waiting we’re talking about here.) This past week or so of...
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I finally felt it
“It” being the pain, the punch to the gut, the dissipation of oxygen in the room. I was at a staff meeting this morning and heard our DC correspondent explain in precise language that to obtain an...
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Coffee clicks {volume 7} Prodromal labor, Trumpsta porters, and Italian...
You better believe I’m up for little more than cultivating reading lists at this point in the week. But what a list it will be, I promise. Please tell me y’all watched the GOP debate last night? It...
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My Moral Dilemma As A Catholic SMA Mom
I know I say this every time, but the woman I’m featuring today really is one of my all-time favorites. I met Kelly at Edel last year and was 1. blown away by her height and model-esque features (the...
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Risky love and the culture of loneliness
This morning was…well, let me back up. We quit preschool yesterday (and that’s a whole other post) and then went on to enjoy a fairly idyllic, sun-dappled pumpkin patch sort of day, so we all know what...
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The surprisingly high cost of #treatyoself (and book winners!)
Today is going to be a little scattershot (gosh, I think I just fulfilled a lifelong and previously unconscious desire to use that in a sentence), so I hope you’ll bear with me? It’s Monday, after all....
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If the worst thing that happens to my kids
… is that they have to work harder and share more than the average middle class child of the 21st century, then I’m okay with that. I’m more than okay, in fact. A couple days ago I wrote about the...
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Zika, abortion, and contraceptive imperialism
You knew I was going to write about this, right? I can’t help myself. My newsfeed is filling up with blustering outrage and hand wringing over the Zika virus – a heinous incurable disease with dire...
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Is having kids “sustainable?”
(Perhaps I could have called this one “does green sex = green babies?” but older, wiser Jenny is actually a little embarrassed to have gotten that term rolling.) A couple months back a reader messaged...
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Gorillas, internet mobs, and the culture of the living dead
“The moral status of an infant is equivalent to that of a fetus in the sense that both lack those properties that justify the attribution of a right to life to an individual . . . what we call...
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The unsexiness of death (or what ‘Me Before You’ is missing)
One of these days I’m going to write a nice, fluffy post aaaaaaall about my favorite organic non-hormone disrupting eco-friendly non-GMO spray sunscreen. Or something like that. Today is not that day....
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Why not just use birth control? {some possible “right” answers}
I field a good number of questions along the lines of “how do I explain to my boss/neighbor/mother-in-law/college bff why we don’t use contraception?” This tends to be an especially sticky conversation...
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The power of language and the witness of words
It is a curious time to be a Catholic Christian. (Is it ever not, though? I think maybe we all fall prey to a little good old fashioned chronological snobbery, whether or not we care to admit it.) On...
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To my sisters who marched on Washington
I wanted to write something snarky. I wanted to dash off line after line of statistics and data supporting the appalling abuse committed against women and children in the name of “progress” and...
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