Or: Lay review boards: Cover them in crap and keep them in the dark. Welcome to mushroom farming, Catholic style: the “lay review board.” What is a lay review board?  Well, in the United States, reviews boards were installed in every diocese – as well as a national review board – by the US Conference of…Continue reading Worldwide Mushroom Farming

And it’s not just because I am quoted here by Adam Dodd.

I think of myself as a fiction writer and an opera singer FIRST, then an advocate.  (Obviously, I’m not that good at the first two, but I think big); I love my soap opera  (All My Children, FYI); I have raised complaining to an art form; Waiting tables was an awesome job; I am one…Continue reading A few things you may not know about me:

At the urging of several people, I finally decided to join Narcissism Nation and start a blog.  And for the first time in my life, I am at a loss for words.  I doubt my writer’s block will last for long – my mother didn’t call me “The Mouth” for nothing. The rules:  I refuse…Continue reading Okay, okay …