Simcha Fisher
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sure, sure, you've been sober for three years but I'm
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
sure, sure, you've been sober for three years but I'm
In praise of balance (and pie). My debut at The Pillar! www.simchafisher.com/2025/11/24/i...
In praise of balance (and pie). My debut at The Pillar!
A couple of weeks ago, I broke my toe. Even though it was only just a very little toe — a piggy, if you will — the break is really cramping my style. It’s hard to walk and hard to stand in one plac…
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November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
In praise of balance (and pie). My debut at The Pillar! www.simchafisher.com/2025/11/24/i...
My annual list of gift suggestions for kids (age 8ish and up) and others! All under $100, most under $50. www.simchafisher.com/2025/11/23/a...
A bunch of gifts our ten kids liked, as far as I can tell: The 2025 list!
Here we go! This is my tenth annual list of Christmas present ideas. It used to be that I’d only include things I could wholeheartedly endorse, because I had witnessed my kids using or playin…
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November 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
My annual list of gift suggestions for kids (age 8ish and up) and others! All under $100, most under $50. www.simchafisher.com/2025/11/23/a...
When my late dad had to sign something silly, he would use the name “Horace J. Schmidlapp.” I guess I must have used that name for something at some point because now I get these emails
November 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
When my late dad had to sign something silly, he would use the name “Horace J. Schmidlapp.” I guess I must have used that name for something at some point because now I get these emails
If you are one of those people who does things the right way and can’t understand why anyone would not do things the right way, these next few paragraphs may not be for you. All right.
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What’s for supper? Vol. 449: In which certain patterns emerge
Happy Friday! The last Friday before Thanksgiving. I haven’t even thought about our Thanksgiving menu this year, except that I have a new roll recipe I’m pretty excited about. Oh, and I…
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November 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
If you are one of those people who does things the right way and can’t understand why anyone would not do things the right way, these next few paragraphs may not be for you. All right.
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Good thing the cap on the first can I grabbed was hard to get off, or dinner would have been LIT
November 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Good thing the cap on the first can I grabbed was hard to get off, or dinner would have been LIT
there are 4 types of guys online. no exceptions
November 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
there are 4 types of guys online. no exceptions
I hope God enjoys me being dumb, because it doesn’t seem likely to change anytime soon.
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Omniscient, omnipotent, and a little bit gauche
The wonderful musical Fiddler on the Roof famously begins with the song “Tradition.” Each group in the shtetl – the papas, the mamas, the daughters, the sons – sings a chorus describing their lives…
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November 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I hope God enjoys me being dumb, because it doesn’t seem likely to change anytime soon.
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“Hope is a great stripping away,” he said. “What I hope for is to see the face of God, and whatever else I thought I needed, I don’t really need.” www.simchafisher.com/2025/11/17/w...
What does it really mean to be a pilgrim of hope?
What does it really mean to be a pilgrim of hope? We all know what hope is, more or less. The Gospels call Christians to hope countless times, and Pope Francis, planning ahead, invited Catholics to…
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November 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
“Hope is a great stripping away,” he said. “What I hope for is to see the face of God, and whatever else I thought I needed, I don’t really need.” www.simchafisher.com/2025/11/17/w...
BXVI on mourning. The man had a way with words
November 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
BXVI on mourning. The man had a way with words
He has been uninvited from yoga
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
He has been uninvited from yoga
A shepherd who knows what it’s like to have embarrassing pictures of yourself back when you thought you were a cool sheep
November 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
A shepherd who knows what it’s like to have embarrassing pictures of yourself back when you thought you were a cool sheep
Reposted by Simcha Fisher
The Church has a preferential option for the poor—but who are the poor? Might they be a President with low approval ratings? Might they be the aspiring trillionaire getting wrecked by Joyce Carol Oates on their own website?
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Church has a preferential option for the poor—but who are the poor? Might they be a President with low approval ratings? Might they be the aspiring trillionaire getting wrecked by Joyce Carol Oates on their own website?
Reposted by Simcha Fisher
it has been a good long minute since I read America Magazine but JD Vance getting schooled in a Jesuit publication is the absolute sweetest plum
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JD Vance’s immigration comments are an insult to our Catholic faith
This administration wants to set itself up as somehow Christian. Let them, then, do the bare minimum: Welcome the stranger.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
it has been a good long minute since I read America Magazine but JD Vance getting schooled in a Jesuit publication is the absolute sweetest plum
www.americamagazine.org/faithinfocus...
www.americamagazine.org/faithinfocus...
Reposted by Simcha Fisher
bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass
November 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass
Real pho is made with a bone broth, but I honestly figured I was already pushing my luck with an unfamiliar food, so I figured this would be sort of entry-level pho, and if they liked it, we could go from there. A phojascent soup, if you will.
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What’s for supper? Vol. 447: Mark me down as phojascent
Happy Friday! Let’s get the heck to it! Here’s what we ate this week. Oh wait! I forgot I haven’t showed you Halloween costumes yet. Okay, we had one Chestburster (from Alie…
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November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Real pho is made with a bone broth, but I honestly figured I was already pushing my luck with an unfamiliar food, so I figured this would be sort of entry-level pho, and if they liked it, we could go from there. A phojascent soup, if you will.
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This comment on my site is giving me such joy right now. I told her she should call the FBI and tell them what I did.
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This comment on my site is giving me such joy right now. I told her she should call the FBI and tell them what I did.
I hear Americans can expect to lose, in many cases, up to 654% of their body weight
Oz: We thought it was 125 million pounds. Our estimate is Americans will lose 135 billion pounds by the midterms
November 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I hear Americans can expect to lose, in many cases, up to 654% of their body weight
So close! That is a shitshow. 💕
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
So close! That is a shitshow. 💕
This administration wants to set itself up as somehow Christian. Let them, then, do the bare minimum: Welcome the stranger.
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God says welcome the stranger; JD Vance says go away
When I was growing up, we lived next door to a group home for adults with disabilities. There were probably 15 people living there, not including the old couple who housed them. Some of the residen…
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November 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This administration wants to set itself up as somehow Christian. Let them, then, do the bare minimum: Welcome the stranger.
www.simchafisher.com/2025/11/03/g...
www.simchafisher.com/2025/11/03/g...
You may think you’re over wanting to impress the cool kids by the time you’re fifty years old, but when you have four teenage girls in the house, it does sneak up on you sometimes.
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What’s for supper? Vol. 446: Whoopy once! Whoopy twice!
Happy Friday! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! The kids made their costumes almost entirely on their own this year. I made one component each for Benny and Corrie’s costumes, and the older kids did it all th…
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October 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
You may think you’re over wanting to impress the cool kids by the time you’re fifty years old, but when you have four teenage girls in the house, it does sneak up on you sometimes.
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the time I was in the Wendy's drive thru dictating notes for an essay about John Singer Sargent and the lady who took my order had a rubber hand sticking out of her chest and scared the shit out of me
October 30, 2025 at 12:23 AM
the time I was in the Wendy's drive thru dictating notes for an essay about John Singer Sargent and the lady who took my order had a rubber hand sticking out of her chest and scared the shit out of me
If you liked "they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats!" you'll love "it's totally acceptable!" because the same damn idea, but without so much foam on the lips.
JD Vance: ‘Totally Acceptable’ To Want Neighbors Who ‘Speak The Same Language’
Vance is casting aside traditional notions of the American cultural melting pot.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
If you liked "they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats!" you'll love "it's totally acceptable!" because the same damn idea, but without so much foam on the lips.