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.
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Euthanasia and IVF share death-dealing control issues; why embryo "adoption" is not a good idea; the shocking truth about bishops, money, and Church demographics -- and more!
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.
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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,…
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.
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.
Here’s an extra fact-check for Elon… My father died on February 1, a few years ago. His social security was auto-deposited to his account that same day. As soon as SSA learned of his death, the money was taken back OUT. No… dead people do NOT receive SSA payments.
That’s why I can’t understand the mega tards taking this and running with it both my parents funeral directors got that Burial money. They weren’t even gone a week before that the Social Security knew they were both gone not the same time four years apart.
Musk's little tech bros don't know how to compute years 1999 and earlier, that's why they think your great grandfather who died in 1961 is still getting his payments.
Musk is stupid. He knows nothing about legacy software, coding old systems, change management, downsizing practices and our federal government. For real. He's just there to break things.
He is incredibly stupid. How in the heck is he supposedly running all these major companies simultaneously while screwing up our government? The SSA cuts off social security so fast at death, and if a disbursement goes out after death, such as when a person dies right when social security payments are going out, as soon as they receive the death notification from the coroner, they retrieve that last payment in the blink of an eye. Elon is an idiot. The problem with liars and cheaters is tha…
That right! As a former Banking Officer/Asst VP I can attest to how quickly the govt sweeps into bank accounts. The two most common withdrawals are due to Taxes Owed & Social Security overpayment after a person’s death. Social Security payments are for the previous month and are paid in the following month. For example, a July payment is made in August. The SSA cannot pay benefits for the month of death.
When my mother passed away, she left me directions to call the Social Security office and let them know the day that she passed. I know that no other benefits were sent to her and in fact I had to take $4900 out of the $6000 she left my sister and I to repay the department of human services back for the food stamps she had used in her lifetime