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Archive: September 2006

Farmer’s market

This morning after a bit of a late start, we made our now-customary trek to the farmer’s market in neighboring Marblehead. Today’s haul included an enormous zucchini, some new potatos, a pint of fresh raspberries, sweet as candy and sure...

What Heather wants for her kids

A great list: In the effort to provide better for my kids than I had myself, I have compiled this list. Mentally and in the past twelve hours, so it isn’t binding, but it’s a start. In no particular order, I want my kids to… a...

Beautiful

Just when I’d been reading (don’t ask me where, I don’t remember) about Picasso and what a misogynist he was, the Summa Mamas post this beautiful portrait of a breastfeeding mother. How sweet, how tender. How hard to believe this...

I am the master of my fate… the captain of my soul

An interesting piece  in the First Things blog on an assisted suicide pact in England, focuses on the gap between secular and religious people and makes an pointed observation that the secularists of today do not just disagree with religious...

Sleepless in Salem

Haven’t been here in a while. Quarter to six and sleepless. Isabella went sweetly to sleep at around 10:30 and hardly stirred when I put her down in the bassinet. And I suspect she’d still be asleep if her mother hadn’t woken her...

Poem for the week

Because it’s an August poem (even though toay’s the first of September. And because, like Heaney, I’ve been disappointed by blackberries gone bad. Blackberry-picking   Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the...

How to start homeschooling

An interesting response by Rod Dreher to a reader who asks about beginning to think about homeschooling. First he says: It was disappointing to us to have to give up on homeschooling with Matthew, but Julie and I have always tried to keep squarely...

Baby Sleep

It feels like were starting to fall into a pattern. Last night Bella went nine hours between feedings. She ate at nine and then was up for a while, finally falling alseep with Dom and having him soothe her a few times. He put her in the bassinette...

The Spirituality of Dating

Theresa sent me this link to an interesting reflection on spirituality and dating: Preparing spiritually before dating at Evangelical Catholicism. I like the fact that she emphasizes a range of devotions: journaling, the divine mercy chaplet...

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