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Compassion: The Hardest Pill to Swallow

  • Lacey Louwagie

Lacey Louwagie

22 Jan 2013

My newest post is up at Young Adult Catholics, which contains a few of my reflections on Karen Armstrong’s 12 Steps to a Compassionate Life. Also, we’ve had an upsurge in new writers over at the blog with much of relevance and beauty to say — so glad to be in such good company!

Neil Gaiman, J.K. Rowling, and What We Take From Flawed Creators

Neil Gaiman, J.K. Rowling, and What We Take From Flawed Creators

Orson Scott Card. Marion Zimmer Bradley. J.K. Rowling. Neil Gaiman. This is my litany for the writers of my lifetime who have opened my heart, then broken it. Orson Scott Card made a passionate argument against xenophobia in his Ender series, then went on a homophobic crusade. Marion Zimmer
22 Sep 2025 7 min read
I'm Thinking in Novels Again

I'm Thinking in Novels Again

Back in the first ten years of the 2000s, I was trying to figure out the art of the short story. I mostly read novels, so I mostly “thought” in novels, too. All my story ideas came to me as novels. I read excellent short stories in my writing group
08 Sep 2025 4 min read
My Reading Life: Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

My Reading Life: Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

"You need to have your time to be wild to be better at domesticity." When I was in my twenties and years away from becoming a mother myself, a coworker who had just had a baby told me this about nursing: “It really reminds you that underneath it
10 Jul 2025 3 min read
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