Category Archives: Friendship
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Burying the Cake – and the Alleluia
Leave a commentNovember 10, 2018 by lucieromarin
I’ve been ironing baby-clothes and thinking about this post by Dorothy Cummings McLean, in which she writes about what it …
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Stay Out of My Sleep
Leave a commentOctober 30, 2018 by lucieromarin
People can say what they like about putting things behind you and moving on, but I’ve yet to find a …
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The Glass I Cannot Throw Away
Leave a commentAugust 23, 2018 by lucieromarin
This is the glass I cannot throw away. It sits next to my sink. I can’t use it (the …
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On Turning Forty
Leave a commentJuly 18, 2018 by lucieromarin
Single women raised in conservative communities dread their fortieth birthdays. (I don’t know if the same is true for men; …
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Wounded Witches, Pro-Life Pagans
Leave a commentJune 11, 2018 by lucieromarin
When I turned fifteen, a Catholic adult gave me a book about how to summon demons. It was based on …
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Thread as a Primitive Magic
2February 25, 2018 by lucieromarin
Once, after a session of spiritual direction, I took my crochet hook and my yarn from my bag. “Do you …
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“Then They Won’t Hate Him So Much”
Leave a commentFebruary 14, 2018 by lucieromarin
I had been catching up with a seminarian-friend, one who had also met my director years past. As we walked …
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It Doesn’t Look as I Thought it Would
2May 24, 2015 by lucieromarin
I began blogging about recovery from spiritual burnout with no precise idea of how healing or recovery would look. At …
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The View from the Loft
2July 16, 2014 by lucieromarin
The obvious piece of advice to give anyone thinking of joining a liturgical choir is this… don’t do it! Are …
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Notes from Thus-Far
1June 16, 2014 by lucieromarin
So, I’m about a year and six months into blogging about conservative Catholic recovery from burnout, and disappointment in vocation …
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