Rosemary Peters-Hill
Bedtime Stories For Generation Alpha
Bedtime Stories For Generation Alpha
The room is dark. It's my sons' bedtime, and the younger snores peacefully while the older tosses and turns. (If you have ever slept in the same room as a...
Indications of Self-Injury – from a Former Cutter, to Parents
Indications of Self-Injury – from a Former Cutter, to Parents
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I sit at the "hand table" with my occupational therapist. I've come a couple times now, for sharp thumb pain that makes it so I...
Alms-Giving :: Something Greater Than Jonah
Alms-Giving :: Something Greater Than Jonah
Mass was weirdly joyful, this past Sunday. Weirdly, because Lent had just started and many parishioners looked the way I felt: tired, frustrated, humbled, and/or ruing the resolution to...
Unresolutions {Part 1}
Unresolutions {Part 1}
My family lived a ludicrous year 2023. We dealt with 11 months of recurrent-boil-raising MRSA in both our kids (and the attendant dozens of doctors' appointments). Our older son was bullied at...
“Reflections”
"Reflections"
Mulan is one of those Disney movies that bypassed me as the target demographic – I was in graduate school when it came out and, I will admit, exquisitely uninterested – so it took...