# poison ivy (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover poison ivy. Page: Feed: --- ## [Yes, Postpartum Mental Illness is Real](https://www.patheos.com/blogs/steelmagnificat/2026/08/yes-postpartum-mental-illness-is-real/) _2026-08-21 · Mary Pezzulo · Steel Magnificat_ I just want to say that postpartum depression is real. All kinds of postpartum mental illness are real. And often, the way we respond to them makes it worse. This is so obvious it should go without saying. But in today’s news cycle, I see a whole lot of trolls on social media \[…\] ## [The American Pro-Life Movement Lied. Now What?](https://www.patheos.com/blogs/steelmagnificat/2026/08/the-american-pro-life-movement-lied-now-what/) _2026-08-18 · Mary Pezzulo · Steel Magnificat_ Abortion rates in the United States have gone up 21%. Yes, I’m going to break my moratorium on talking about the pro-life movement for a minute. I’ll be getting all these statistics from The Guttmacher Institute. Rates of abortions in this country reliably fell, no matter who was president, from 1981 until around 2017. \[…\] ## [Everywhere I Look, I See Your Face](https://www.patheos.com/blogs/steelmagnificat/2026/08/everywhere-i-look-i-see-your-face/) _2026-08-15 · Mary Pezzulo · Steel Magnificat_ It was the busiest week of the year. I was helping out at the back-to-school summer day camp for the church outreach near my house. Most of the time, I only volunteer there a few days a week. But this time, I spent every afternoon for five days zooming back and forth between classrooms, \[…\] ## [Theology of the Tomato Time](https://www.patheos.com/blogs/steelmagnificat/2026/08/theology-of-the-tomato-time/) _2026-08-11 · Mary Pezzulo · Steel Magnificat_ It’s the time of year that I call ”the tomato glut.” Tomato vines are strange, uncanny plants. I think they could take over the world if given half a chance. If you cut a small stem, called a “sucker,” off a tomato plant and stick it in a glass of water, it will grow \[…\] ## [On Loaves, on Fish, on Grief, on Healing](https://www.patheos.com/blogs/steelmagnificat/2026/08/on-loaves-on-fish-on-grief-on-healing/) _2026-08-04 · Mary Pezzulo · Steel Magnificat_ A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew: When Jesus heard of the death of John the Baptist, he withdrew in a boat to a deserted place by himself. The crowds heard of this and followed him on foot from their towns. When he disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved \[…\] ## [On Sunshine, Happiness, And Eternal Life](https://www.patheos.com/blogs/steelmagnificat/2026/07/on-sunshine-happiness-and-eternal-life/) _2026-07-31 · Mary Pezzulo · Steel Magnificat_ I was happy in the sunshine today. I went to Toronto, the little town north of Steubenville, which has a glorious clean outdoor pool. The hours between ten and noon are their adult swim, where patrons over 18 can swim laps without the crowds and noise of the children who come later in the \[…\] ## [Wild Grapes, Wild Poison](https://www.patheos.com/blogs/steelmagnificat/2026/07/wild-grapes-wild-poison/) _2026-07-29 · Mary Pezzulo · Steel Magnificat_ It started with a spat over poison ivy. Jimmy’s boy came by to inspect the garden. The garden is getting exciting. The cherry tomatoes are ripening first, and the paste and slicing tomatoes are so laden with green fruit that the cages are toppling over. I have never had a crop like this. If \[…\] ## [There Have Always Been Two Churches](https://www.patheos.com/blogs/steelmagnificat/2026/07/there-have-always-been-two-churches/) _2026-07-26 · Mary Pezzulo · Steel Magnificat_ Sometimes I feel so well that I forget that I’m not. It was just another day. That’s the way days are now. I used to feel terrible, most of the time, but the past few years have been relatively happy and uneventful. I’ve been at peace with myself, more often than not. I was at \[…\] ## [How Does A Seed Grow? How Does the Kingdom of Heaven?](https://www.patheos.com/blogs/steelmagnificat/2026/07/how-does-a-seed-grow-how-does-the-kingdom-of-heaven/) _2026-07-24 · Mary Pezzulo · Steel Magnificat_ He proposed another parable to them. “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in a field. It is the smallest of all the seeds, yet when full-grown it is the largest of plants. It becomes a large bush, and the ‘birds of the sky come and \[…\] ## [While Waiting on the Weeds and Wheat](https://www.patheos.com/blogs/steelmagnificat/2026/07/while-waiting-on-the-weeds-and-wheat/) _2026-07-22 · Mary Pezzulo · Steel Magnificat_ The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man who sowed good seed in his field. While everyone was asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off. When the crop grew and bore fruit, the weeds appeared as well. The slaves of the householder came to him \[…\] ## [Know before it drops (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/4hTfgqAxfz3V) _2026-07-22 · **Sponsored**_ Follow a show, artist, genre or rocket and get notified before release ## [As the Mountains Disappeared](https://www.patheos.com/blogs/steelmagnificat/2026/07/as-the-mountains-disappeared/) _2026-07-18 · Mary Pezzulo · Steel Magnificat_ The nightmare began when I was sleeping, and it didn’t end when I woke up. I dreamed I was fighting my way through a maze of dirty rooms in a dank basement that went on forever. There were other creatures in there with me that looked like people, but they weren’t. They were demons who \[…\] ## [Poison Ivy with Virginia Creeper Again](https://poison-ivy.org/poison-ivy-with-virginia-creeper-again/) _2026-06-30 · admin · poison-ivy.org_ Here we have these two vines hanging out together and even putting their leaves right next to each other for easy comparison. It is remarkable how Virginia creeper and poison ivy so often grow in the same place. But at least this view makes clear how different the 5-leaf creeper is from the 3-leaf poison \[ \] ## [Poison Ivy Strikes Again](https://poison-ivy.org/poison-ivy-strikes-again/) _2026-06-26 · admin · poison-ivy.org_ Another sorry victim of the evil weed. A few days after clearing some brush the bubbles appeared and the horrendous rash. The fluid in the bubbles is mostly water, like the bubbles you get when you burn yourself. Poison ivy rash is an allergic reaction, but once the skin breaks open you can also get \[ \] ## [Poison Ivy and Virginia Creeper Tree](https://poison-ivy.org/poison-ivy-and-virginia-creeper-tree/) _2026-06-21 · admin · poison-ivy.org_ Here we see poison ivy covering one trunk of a tree while the other trunk has Virginia creeper. These two vines are very often seen growing together, but not usually so neatly divided. ## [Poison Ivy with Canada Moonseed](https://poison-ivy.org/poison-ivy-with-canada-moonseed/) _2026-06-11 · admin · poison-ivy.org_ Here is a confusing little jumble sent to us by a viewer: this is TWO different plants twisted together, looking like one. There is poison ivy, the large green leaf on the bottom left, and the smaller reddish leaf bottom right. But the other two leaves, wrinkly ones, are Canada Moonseed, a vine that produces \[ \] ## [Black Urushiol Rings](https://poison-ivy.org/black-urushiol-rings/) _2026-04-07 · admin · poison-ivy.org_ Urushiol! In black rings! I came upon this sawn down tree on the edge of a parking lot. I hope the person who cut this tree down was either careful or immune to poison ivy, because lots of urushiol oil got sprayed around as the chainsaw cut through the tree and through a set of \[ \] ## [Poison Ivy in Japan](https://poison-ivy.org/poison-ivy-in-japan/) _2026-03-10 · admin · poison-ivy.org_ News to me! After 76 years of life and 25 years of poison ivy info-sifting I have learn a whole new thing: THERE IS POISON IVY IN JAPAN! Also in Taiwan, and probably some in China and nearby countries. This startling fact was revealed today at an online meeting of poison ivy freaks; people who \[ \] ## [The Disappearing Website](https://poison-ivy.org/the-disappearing-website/) _2026-03-03 · admin · poison-ivy.org_ I created this site for fun, but it got very popular and I made a little money from it, but mostly I had fun hearing all the horror stories and helping people with all sort of poison ivy questions, which I still do, so all for free. But years ago Google had this very site \[ \] ## [Birdhouse Poison Ivy](https://poison-ivy.org/birdhouse-poison-ivy/) _2025-08-05 · admin · poison-ivy.org_ I addition to obsessing about poison ivy, I also tend to 20 birdhouses, checking them weekly. At least one of them is surrounded by tons of poison ivy, as seen here. I wear knee high rubber boots which also help keep ticks off of me. Since we don t really want people to be messing with \[ \] ## [Ship everywhere from one CLI (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/6FSXeJ8MPvhc) _2025-08-05 · **Sponsored**_ One codebase, hosted runners, encrypted credentials, and automated submissions across stores ## [Nasty Ankle Poison Ivy Rash](https://poison-ivy.org/nasty-ankle-poison-ivy-rash/) _2025-07-24 · admin · poison-ivy.org_ This is WHY this site exists! The poison ivy rash is awful, and it so easy to get and so easy to avoid. This fellow was just going fishing, wearing shorts, and there must have been some very ripe poison ivy or poison oak right along the shore, which we would guess is true MUCH \[ \]