1. Loneliness: a Postscript

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    January 22, 2013 by lucieromarin

    So, I managed to write for an hour yesterday and still omit the one point I really wanted to make, …
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  2. A Different Apologetic

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    January 21, 2013 by lucieromarin

    So, having declared that contemporary methods of chastity apologetics cause more problems than they solve, I’ve left myself in the …
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  3. More Wizards! (in Chastity Apologetics)

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    January 19, 2013 by lucieromarin

    If you’ve ever seen a woman go spare in a fast food joint simply because she heard she’d have to …
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  4. They Think We’re Rich!

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    January 15, 2013 by lucieromarin

    Some time ago, a married friend told me that she’d been given a friend’s old fridge, and remarked, “We’ve hardly …
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  5. The Feast of the Holy Family

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    January 13, 2013 by lucieromarin

    If there’s one thing that singing in a liturgical choir has taught me, it’s that every joker in the pew …
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  6. The Impossible Words… “I Need a Career.”

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    January 11, 2013 by lucieromarin

    If you’ve read sufficient conservative literature during your formative years, had the right teachers, and mixed with the right friends, …
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  7. If on a Summer’s Day a Sanguine…

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    January 8, 2013 by lucieromarin

    …has afternoon tea with a melancholic of the previous post (i.e me), the conversation about making friends as one ages …
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  8. When Two Single Melancholics Have Afternoon Tea…

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    January 6, 2013 by lucieromarin

    …they discuss friends moving away or moving on, how social groups shift, dissolve and fade as one ages and remains …
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  9. Entitlement

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    January 5, 2013 by lucieromarin

    I’ve a number of friends who have been hurt by conservative Catholics with an inexplicable sense of entitlement to other …
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  10. Why Children Don’t Like to Share

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    January 2, 2013 by lucieromarin

    So, we’ve just had Christmas (okay, we’ve just had Christmas Day – I know we’re still in the twelve days), …
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