Category Archives: Seraphic

Just Two Girls from Notre Dame

Very occasionally this blog sends best wishes to long-term readers who are about to get married. And I am a bit stubborn about this, since some yahoo, who obviously only read a post or two of my blog, wrote on his blog that my readers never seem to get married

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Just Two Girls from Notre Dame

Kraków Appearance Postponed

The retreat in Kraków for Singles to be held in October has been cancelled. However, I have been invited to speak at the women’s retreat in May 2014.

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Kraków Appearance Postponed

"We want to see the nuns!"

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I could have been a nun–after I gave up the Star Trek obsession.

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"We want to see the nuns!"

The Teenager’s Job

It’s Teenage Week at Seraphic Singles, mostly because I talked to a woman recently about a terrible dating relationship she suffered as a teen.

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The Teenager’s Job

The Teen Romance Myth

It’s Teenage Week here on Seraphic Singles as I ruefully survey my own teenage years and my adult conclusions that teenage dating is pointless, stupid and risky.

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The Teen Romance Myth

The Important of Telling Grown-Ups Stuff

Being a teenager was difficult, but I was lucky. Until I was eighteen, I mooned around vaguely wishing I had a boyfriend

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The Important of Telling Grown-Ups Stuff

A Rare but Heartfelt Endorsement

I have been neglecting my reponsibilities to the blogging community by not mentioning other blogs I like.

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A Rare but Heartfelt Endorsement

A Word about Math

I very much enjoyed reading responses to yesterday’s question, “What if you were kidnapped by space aliens and they zapped you with alien technology so that all your XX chromosomes warped into XY chromosomes and when you regained consciousness, you were really and truly a man?” The point of the exercise was to ponder what it might be like to be a man.

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A Word about Math

Extreme Empathy

Thanks to your prayers, I slept like a log. I don’t have to go in for this blood test for some hours yet, so I will calm myself by returning to “Let’s Praise Men Week.” (In case you didn’t read my terrified midnight post, by 14:20 British Summer Time I will be in a waiting-room waiting to have a blood test.

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Extreme Empathy

Kryptonite

Long-term readers know that I am scared of British doctors.

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Kryptonite

Girls, you have to trust your instinct to say no

I received an e-mail the other day from a teenager who had been approached at a farmer’s market by one of the vendors. He told her that he was new to the area and was hoping for friends.

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Girls, you have to trust your instinct to say no

Auntie Seraphic & the Unsuccessful Matchmaker

It’s “Let’s Praise Men Week” here on Seraphic Single because whether or not y’all are Serious Singles or Searching Singles, getting along with men is something we have to do.

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Auntie Seraphic & the Unsuccessful Matchmaker

Let’s Tell Men What to Wear

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How much if you throw in the lot?

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Let’s Tell Men What to Wear

When Bairns Come Last

Woman On Bus (sulkily): Why don’t you like staying at my flat?

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When Bairns Come Last

Now Let Us Praise Good Men Again

Recently the shipment of my library arrived at the Historical House, and after B.A. put together four bookcases, I began to take the books out of their boxes

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Now Let Us Praise Good Men Again

Innocent Because Beautiful

The idea that the surviving Boston Bombing suspect must be innocent because he is “too beautiful” suggests that some girls take “not rooted in reality” to an extreme.I have been pondering my high school days recently, and I am so glad that when I was a teenager, there were fewer ways to preserve evidence of the weird blips of one’s juvenile brain. There was no texting, no tweeting, no blogging, no Facebook, no camera phones and very few tattoos for women

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Innocent Because Beautiful

M-Day Notes

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Spiritual mothers are mothers, too. Ooh la la.

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M-Day Notes

Gut versus Self-Doubt

I’ve been thinking a lot about my controversial advice to the nineteen year old reader whose first impulse, when approached for friendship by a stranger a few older than she when she was on a family outing, was to ask her father. She was embarrassed that she had done this–and perhaps that her father had given his opinion not only to her but to the stranger–and wondered what else she might have done.I said she had done the right thing, and she could do it again in future.

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Gut versus Self-Doubt

Cementing at Leisure

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Mostly gone, but not forgotten. Today is B.A.’s and my wedding anniversary, so marriage stuff is going to follow

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Cementing at Leisure

Auntie Seraphic & the Concerned Married Sister

As far as I can recall, this is the first letter in six years about someone else being Single!Dear Seraphic: I have a good topic for you to cover if you are so inclined. How does one strike the balance between letting God be in control of one’s life, but not being passive

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Auntie Seraphic & the Concerned Married Sister