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Simcha Fisher @simchafisher.bsky.social · 9h

Wasn’t able to go to a #nokings protest but my house skeletons would like a word

Simcha Fisher @simchafisher.bsky.social · 1d

At my parents' grave, we said a decade of the rosary and I planted some crocuses and, just because I thought it was funny, some garlic. My parents didn’t agree on lots of things, but they certainly had similar views about garlic.
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What’s for supper? Vol. 444: And don’t forget to put garlic on my grave

Happy Friday! in haste, in haste, for this is day two of me and Damien putting in a new roof, which we hope to finish by Sunday. It’s a small area, about 115 square feet, and only one storey …

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Simcha Fisher @simchafisher.bsky.social · 2d

It was yum dot com

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Simcha Fisher @simchafisher.bsky.social · 2d

An evergreen, greener than ever

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Whataboutism isn’t just a fallacy, it’s evil

Back around 2003, I had a conversation about abortion with a liberal friend. She couldn’t get her head around the idea that I, a pro-lifer, sincerely cared about some inconsequential cluster …

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Simcha Fisher @simchafisher.bsky.social · 2d

Home Depot parking lot. A bloated pick up truck with a giant cab, tons of chrome and a little bitty bed with a single piece of lumber in it starts up with an enormous throaty roar. a scrawny, leathery little old man with thick glasses turns to his friend and says, “Awh-oh. POWAH.”

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Simcha Fisher @simchafisher.bsky.social · 3d

Chicken and dumplings! My husband and I are gonna be doing roof repair in the cold tomorrow, so I’m making a cozy dinner for tomorrow now

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Simcha Fisher @simchafisher.bsky.social · 3d

The best recipes have a tray of meat waiting impatiently to get back in that pan

A pan of diced vegetables cooking in the foreground with a plate of cooked chicken in the background

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Simcha Fisher @simchafisher.bsky.social · 5d

"[T]he fusion of faith and political power always comes at a price: faith becomes the servant of power and must bend to its criteria." - BVXI in 2007

an image of a passage from Jesus of Nazareth by Benedict XVI:

“[The]temptation to use power to secure the faith has arisen again and again in varied forms throughout the centuries, and again and again faith has risked being suffocated in the embrace of power. The struggle for the freedom of the Church, the struggle to avoid identifying Jesus' Kingdom with any political structure, is one that has to be fought century after century. For the fusion of faith and political power always comes at a price: faith becomes the servant of power and must bend to its criteria.”

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Simcha Fisher @simchafisher.bsky.social · 5d

Some of us are in heaven, some of us still on earth; some of us have passed into eternity, and some of us are just making our way through the 9:30am Mass on a Sunday in October; but we are all still doing the same thing, visibly together, before God. www.simchafisher.com/2025/10/13/r...

Relics are friends

Do you have trouble focusing at Mass? Does your attention wander, and do you find yourself forgetting why you’re there and what you’re doing? May I recommend worshipping with 18 saints?…

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Simcha Fisher @simchafisher.bsky.social · 8d

What’s for supper? Vol. 443: Take heart, for the Lord hath not focaccia
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What’s for supper? Vol. 443: Take heart, for the Lord hath not focaccia

Happy Friday! And dang, it is COLD out there. I know some of you live in an alternate universe where it’s still summer weather, but here it is officially NIPPPY. And you know what that means:…

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🎃Nosferascoob🎃 @scoobydouchebag.bsky.social · 9d

We are the sons of the Hamburger you couldn't Help

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Simcha Fisher @simchafisher.bsky.social · 9d

Walked out of the store singing “I got my garrrrrrrlic” and THEN checked to see if I was alone, which of course no

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Simcha Fisher @simchafisher.bsky.social · 15d

In the evening, I drove out to pick up a chainsaw someone was giving away! I’m super excited. It’s my first chainsaw. I can tell the rest of the family is excited, too, because I heard one teenager say to the other, “Ho ho ho, now she has a chainsaw.”

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What’s for supper? Vol. 442: Behold, the steamer cometh

Happy Friday! I don’t remember why, but I even though I was quite busy this week, I planned a menu with some heavy and elaborate meals. A foolish but delicious error, and we have arrived at F…

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Simcha Fisher @simchafisher.bsky.social · 16d

#inktober2025 #inktober #weave
Meh

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Simcha Fisher @simchafisher.bsky.social · 17d

Thanks!

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Simcha Fisher @simchafisher.bsky.social · 17d

#inktober #inktober2025 #mustache
I stroggled

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Simcha Fisher @simchafisher.bsky.social · 17d

Those bastards turned me into a public radio donor. Fifty years I held out!

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Simcha Fisher @simchafisher.bsky.social · 17d

There’s a lot of formless glop out there calling itself poetry, but there’s a lot of really wonderfully-crafted gems, too.

Go and see! Then print it out and stick it on the wall.

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Poetry for your walls, Vol. 3!

Several years ago, I suggested printing out good but accessible poems and hanging them on the walls of your house. I listed 50 poems, mostly short enough to fit on one page. The goo…

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Simcha Fisher @simchafisher.bsky.social · 19d

OSV has published my article about how I found relics of St. Helen and St. Peter at the Salvation Army, and what I learned about, well, salvation. I really poured my heart into this piece, and I'm so glad it made it into the magazine before it closes.
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Relics are central to the Catholic faith

It was so hot and the air conditioning was so feeble I almost bailed out of line at the Salvation Army. Instead, I passed the time by checking out the jewelry case. Blue rhinestone earrings. Some p…

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Simcha Fisher @simchafisher.bsky.social · 20d

Is he… gaining sentience?

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Simcha Fisher @simchafisher.bsky.social · 22d

She said, “Can you do it without escalating?” I thought about it, and said, “No.” Then I fixed myself a bowl of saffron olive oil ice cream with burnt orange caramel, sat on the couch, wrapped myself in a blanket, and pretended I was alone.

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