I have built up a pretty thick skin towards institutional misogyny. Growing up Catholic, I was carefully conditioned to accept my lot: I could never be an altar boy; girls were seductive; boys were smarter; positions of power were always held by men; Eve’s sin is my burden; my rolled uniform skirt is the reason…Continue reading Why Do We Hate Our Girls?
I don’t really like talking politics. But today, it’s all about politics. Roll Call reported last week that Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner had agreed upon a new House Chaplain: a Jesuit priest from the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus (Oregon Jesuits), Fr. Patrick Conroy. Victims were outraged. Why? In March, the Oregon…Continue reading The Plague on Both Your Houses, Boehner and Pelosi
And really, that’s why I’m doing this. With anger, we get nowhere. But if we have smiles on our faces, we can change the world (or at least stop crying for a while).
A year of my life was dominated by a perfectionist’s life-and-death struggle with poop, poop prediction, and eventual poop containment. The result? Insanity.