So Christmas Eve Eve is upon us and I'm generally feeling well, which, is a marked improvement from yesterday about this time.

The Saturday after Thanksgiving, my mom had a fall and I called the ambulance. The doctor thought she had broken her hip, so she was flown to Rapid City. As it turns out, she did not break her hip (for which I am grateful) ( Read more... )

The Trip Home


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It does not matter how much you plan, there will always be something to throw a wrench into them. Sorry Heather. I'll catch you in August. Maybe July.

I love Rosebud with every fiber of my being. It is the land of my ancestors. It is my clay, formed with patches alluvial soil and sandhills, blood, grass dances, lodgepole indentations and spilled ( Read more... )

One of the reasons why I think of myself as a heretic is that I constantly question Catholic teaching. It's in me to have faith, but faith can only lend itself to so much before it becomes blind faith, which is worthless in my book ( Read more... )

NPR: Church Hosts Conference on 'Ex-Gay' Therapy

"The controversial idea that counseling and therapy can overcome homosexual tendencies is at the heart of what's called the "ex-gay movement." Proponents of ways that gays and lesbians can be 'cured' recently held a conference in Phoenix, Ariz ( Read more... )

I've been a bad Catholic this Lent.

I missed Ash Wednesday, willfully.
It wasn't out of any suppressed anger at Holy Mother Church [for the myriad of reasons I could be], it was out of the stark reality that I was dead tired after work last Wednesday and didn't feel like standing up, sitting down and filing in line to be told that I should ( Read more... )

It is Fat Tuesday.
Have a chub today, one and all!


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I got this, totally unaided.

You know the Bible 88%!

Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses - you know it all! You are fantastic!

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This makes me want to re-read Leviticus.

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