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You Know You’re an Adult When…
Leave a commentJune 15, 2018 by lucieromarin
You have the bronchitis that will not die; But you have to get up at 5am tomorrow to travel for …
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‘Should’ and ‘Just’
Leave a commentMay 14, 2018 by lucieromarin
Counsellors listen for the word ‘should.’ As soon as the client says, “… I know I should be saving more,” …
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Read the Label
Leave a commentApril 12, 2018 by lucieromarin
Despite deciding recently that it would be better just to embrace my ugliness than to waste my entire life trying …
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The Really Odd Thing is…
Leave a commentMarch 20, 2018 by lucieromarin
…that everyone knows that a prisoner is imprisoned. He can’t just go wandering about from parish to parish to find …
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Maronite Fast. Maronite Slow.
Leave a commentMarch 2, 2018 by lucieromarin
Or: How to Confuse Your Friday – Bi-ritual Lent cont’d. Forget to check your Maronite liturgical calendar (or, possibly, forget …
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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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Carnivore Eats Plants: A Tale with Recipes
Leave a commentFebruary 18, 2018 by lucieromarin
This is the story of what happens when a bone-lazy Australian-Hungarian descendant of Magyar aristocracy attempts the Maronite observance of …
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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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When Mass is the Trigger
Leave a commentFebruary 11, 2018 by lucieromarin
Traumatised persons are removed from triggering people, places or situations, in the interests of recovery. This is known. It may …
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Spy Wednesday
2March 31, 2015 by lucieromarin
That’s tomorrow’s name. Truly. You heard it here first (unless, like me, you’ve been reading, ‘Mary was Her Life’ which …
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Roadkill Rhapsody 