My son is dying slowly and has been since he was born — One of my sons is terminally ill with a very rare genetic disease. One day his organs are going to shut down one at a time, and he will die. The best we can do after this process begins is to make him as comfortable as we can, and try…

It doesn’t say what pro life people think it says — People who believe abortion is murder often use the Bible to prove that life begins at conception, but if we are going to use the Bible to define when life begins, we need to acknowledge that there are at least two different concepts of that in the Bible, and that…

I will see how it goes — So I did it and I signed up for the shiny new thing, the “Friend of Medium” membership, although I still have very little trust and even less by way of expectations. It’s no secret that Medium has betrayed many of their good writers by changing up how we are…

Advent is the most difficult of seasons for me — I’m preparing for Advent, the most difficult season of the church year for me. I know part of why it is so hard, why it ends up being my dark night of the soul. Here are some of the things I’m doing to make it a spiritually nourishing time. Set up an Advent altar I…

The experience was so surreal — “I’m really, really needing a blowjob. Please, uh, can you, uh, help me out with that maybe?” One of the neighbors asked. Damn, this is what I get for being friendly to the neighbors I thought. I got knots in my stomach, just knowing that he would rape me if…

And I don’t fucking want them — “38B,” I said to the guy who was trying to flirt with me on OkCupid. “What?” he asked me. “That’s my bra size.” “Why do I want to know your bra size?” He asked. “Many years ago, my friend Rhoda and I made a pact.” I said, settling into my…

The liturgical new year is almost here — The new liturgical year begins on December 3 this year, and as I’ve been gardening I’ve been incorporating plants for the season of Advent in my garden. …

But only because it stomps on my toes — The other day in one of my thrift store trips, I found the basic text for Narcotics Anonymous, as well as another book called “Living Clean.” For me, the literature of AA, NA, and SAA are all useful because I’m the kind of addict that has many vices and will…

People want to know more about me or something like that — My therapist likes my sense of humor, which makes me wonder about the sanity of my therapist. It might be time for her to pick up her phone and talk to St. Jude, who is the patron saint of impossible causes, otherwise I may take her to the dark side…