One of the books Dom brought back from last week’s Catholic Media Conference in Denver was The Church Under Attack: Five Hundred Years That Split the Church and Scattered the Flock by Diane Moczar. Honestly, the title didn’t grab me, not...
1. So last week Dom went to Denver for the Catholic Media Conference. He was giving a talk on new media and parishes… I think. And on a panel about blogging. While he was away my mom came out to be with me. I was actually a little surprised...
CREDO: Professing the Creed for the Year of Faith AND IS SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER by Devin Rose Be at peace, and heed no nightly noises, for our Lord Jesus Christ is seated at the right hand of the Father. This is the crowning...
1. Why I Love Why Melissa Wiley’s beautiful essay on one of the more trying periods of motherhood: the “why?” phase. At its heart, that’s where the incessant why comes from: a sense of wonder, a sense that the world is a mysterious...
The Decline and Fall of the English Major A technical narrowness, the kind of specialization and theoretical emphasis you might find in a graduate course, has crept into the undergraduate curriculum. That narrowness sometimes reflects the tight...
I didn’t find Odd Apocalypse quite as unsatisfying as Julie D did, but I did feel that it… lacked… something that the first three Odd Thomas books had. Julie writes: I will read the next one simply to see if this ongoing murk ever...
I woke up this morning with two different articles I’d recently read swimming in my head. Funny how when I was awake I hadn’t made the connection, but my brain felt the need to connect the dots while I was sleeping. The first piece was...
1. These Happy Golden Years Laura and Almanzo paper dolls and the little gray house that Almanzo built for Laura. We finished These Happy Golden Years on Tuesday and Bella was up early the next morning and had drawn all of this before I was up...
Recently I was trying to decide what to make for dinner and I was Googling ingredients. I had some broccolini from the farmer’s market, some sausage Dom had grilled and I’d frozen, and I don’t remember what else and I was looking for ideas. I found...
Dom’s traveling to Denver for the Catholic Media Conference and my mom’s here from Texas for the week to keep us company. (Yes, my dad is well enough for her to leave him alone. He can walk to the store, to church, and to his speech...
