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Ed Condon’s recap of With Love, Meghan is hilariously and tragically true down to every detail. I just… cringe.
This entire piece is just the best thing on the internet
Anyone else thinking of getting off social media (I’m looking at you Instagram)??! The more I think about it, the more I don’t love how it makes me feel, among other things. Writing here has been a breath of fresh air and I’d love to pour all my energy into this space. What has it been like for those who’ve taken the plunge and said goodbye to the gram? Especially if you have a Substack page.
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What do IVF and euthanasia have in common? The involve life and death—and big potential profits. Hear about it on this week’s Home Front podcast.
And there’s more, as always: The demographic crisis of American Catholicism, and the problem— THE problem— the Church must confront.
This beautiful interview with Mother Teresa’s personal friend was such a blessing and I hope it will bless you, too!
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My dad called me this afternoon to tell me that the field between our houses was covered with robins, that it wasn’t just one robin that arrived as a sign of spring but a whole field full.
What he didn’t say was that birds were my mom’s thing. She would have been the one to notice. He did in her stead and made sure to bring them to my notice, too.
I could never post this one enough.
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I read Romy Holland’s “What Nobody Told Me About Abortion” this morning and couldn’t help but respond. The pro-life movement continues to behave as though society’s acceptance of abortion is a crisis of science. I’ve said it for years: this is not a crisis of science. This is a crisis of faith. And Romy’s abortion account - specifically,…
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I swear I was not asking for a flood of compliments but these comments are making me all teary-eyed so thank you, thank you, thank you.
That one about finding myself after a shopping freeze, why I freeze when Alex gets sick, how to become radiantly beautiful without spending a dime, and the kids' favorite halibut chowder.
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Just wrapped this up today… still have to add gold highlights to the tunic. I have to say, I love the shaggy lamb!
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I sent this to my sister with a new baby. It’s so valuable to learn early that there are more options in life than the most traditionally accepted. I wish I had felt more comfortable doing what I wanted instead of what was socially expected.
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The fundamental problem with progressivism — and I say this as someone who was a leftist for my entire life, until maybe five years ago—is that progressives want there to be a different reality than the one that is, and become angered when confronted with reality, and blame whoever is presenting that reality to them for being the perpetrator of whatever unpleasant or imperfect reality presented.
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I thought censorship was the worst thing you can do to the public square.
Musk has shown there is something worse. He doesn't want you to read less biased sources of news or info, he wants to make you into Catturd. On Musk's war on the human intellect.
Musk and Trump are such extreme liars, as are many others in the right-wing ecosystem, that we must rethink everything we once thought was wrong about the establishment and even misinformation experts. There’s simply no comparison to Musk/Trump, it’s not a quantitive difference in the sense they tell more lies, their contempt for the truth is something qualitatively different.
