Category Archives: Slightly Comforting
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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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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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She Gathers the Herbs for Battle
Leave a commentJuly 7, 2018 by lucieromarin
I have arisen from the bronchitis-that-would-not-die to find that we’re just over a month off the Feast of the Assumption. …
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2015. The Year of Healing. The Year of the Polyglot!
2January 24, 2015 by lucieromarin
It’s hardly a revelation to say that focusing on an interesting project or work can be a great help when …
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Suffering, Sewing, Sentiment: Notes from a Week
1September 13, 2014 by lucieromarin
I wanted to tell you the story of how my hair fell out and then grew back. Then I realised …
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Also…
1February 1, 2014 by lucieromarin
…a great many people have been raised with the story that Our Lady of the Rosary told Lucia dos Santos …
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“I do not Promise You Happiness in this Life…”
2January 29, 2014 by lucieromarin
In an apparition to St Bernadette Soubirous, Our Lady said, “I do not promise you happiness in this life, but …
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“They Shall Say to the Mountains, ‘Cover Us.'” (For When You Know What’s Coming, and It’s Bad.)
3December 6, 2013 by lucieromarin
I’m no fan of sudden disasters or unexpected evils, and quite understand why we wish for a little foreknowledge sometimes; …
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Ultrasupernaturalism
4October 25, 2013 by lucieromarin
“If I could have been certain of the reader’s goodwill, I would have called [this book] ‘ultrasupernaturalism.’ For that is …
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Roadkill Rhapsody 