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February 2016

February 10, 2016

Ashes to Ashes

Will you think me weird if I confess that Ash Wednesday is my favorite day...

July 2015

July 07, 2015

The Civil War: Beyond Slavery and States’ Rights

Once upon a time in the South, there were a couple fellas named Dubose, a...

June 2015

June 15, 2015

19 Years Later – If I Could Do It Over Again…I Wouldn’t

This morning as I lay in bed watching my husband sleep, I thought back over...

June 04, 2015

I Could Never Leave the Church, It’s My Family

Ever since that darn Pew Study came out, my social media feeds have carried the...

April 2015

April 15, 2015

Maybe we should all forget What Alice Forgot

Last night, I reread the book What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty. A friend...

March 2015

March 26, 2015

Does God love the devil?

We were in the midst of a catechism lesson when the small voice of my...

March 19, 2015

Jesus’s Stepdad

I've asked my kids about John the Baptist and the Blessed Mother. Today we're talking...

March 06, 2015

How do we raise men like that?

Today is the 179th anniversary of the Fall of the Alamo, and it has me...

February 2015

February 24, 2015

“We came here for a reason” – what my Muslim friend wishes you knew

Back in high school, one of my closest friends was Muslim. I fasted with her...

February 04, 2015

The Isolation of Homeschooling – It’s Not Such a Bad Thing

In thirteen years of homeschooling my children, I've gotten quite adept at refuting the claim...

February 02, 2015

Jesus’s Stinky Cousin

Back in December, I asked my children to describe Mary for me. It went so...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

Advocating for Abortion Makes You Unfit to Parent

"Advocating for abortion makes you unfit to parent," at least that was the legal claim...

January 28, 2015

In Idleness There Is No Peace

I was flipping through my archives last week in a mad search for a picture...

January 19, 2015

The Heaven in My Mind

I've begun to write at least a half dozen blog posts today, and have finished...

January 06, 2015

The Other Teams Are Dead

Ever since Ella joined the basketball team in the fall, we've had an ongoing discussion...

December 2014

December 26, 2014

FEMEN: drunken fraternity stunt or political protest?

In the midst of the Christmas festivities in Rome yesterday, a topless protester from the...

November 2014

November 24, 2014

Instagram Engagements

A girl we know got engaged recently. The lovely photographs were all over social media,...

November 12, 2014

Francis is a Chemist, and Chemists are Weird

I keep hearing the Pope referred to as a being a chemist. Sometimes it's...

October 2014

October 19, 2014

Why I’m Grateful to Cardinal Kasper

Once upon a long, long time ago, I sat in religion class at my Catholic...

October 17, 2014

Can you do that on the way to Heaven?

When she was still with us, my sweet and saintly grandmother taught us that the...

October 13, 2014

If I can quote encyclicals, but have not love…

We made a quick run to the grocery store on Saturday morning, just my...

October 08, 2014

Homemade Porn: The New Safe Sex

You've always wanted to be a porn star, right? California's helping you out with that....

September 2014

September 27, 2014

The Dragon in the Garden of Eden

I've always thought of the devil of the Garden of Eden as a snake like...