A shorter version of this article caught my attention in today’s paper. An anthropologist at Utah State University says “there’s no real evidence that children benefit from playing with their parents.” Now I obviously...
On Friday my OB reassured me that I was feeling as bad as I was going to feel and that by my next appt I’d hopefully be starting to feel better. He was wrong. I feel much, much worse. Yesterday I threw up twice. Ok, I thought, that’s the...
About two hours after we went to bed, having stayed up much later than I should have because of a sudden burst of post-dinner energy, Isabella woke up screaming. My guess is she’s teething. I changed her diaper, rocked her gently, gave her...
via Papa Familias, an interesting article (pdf format) on one professor’s attempt to teach history through film. It’s an interesting article, as Papa Lu comments, as much because of what it reveals about the state of higher education, as...
Karen Hall writes a reaction to a story in the L.A. Times by a reporter who lost his faith over the sex-abuse scandal. I haven’t read the article she refers to yet; but Karen’s response struck a chord and I think is worth passing on: One...
From an essay titled The Catholic Origins of Manliness by Michael P. Foley, a great counter to all the feminist misconceptions of what chivalry means: Though the chivalrous regard for the welfare of women would later become subject to all sorts of...
Of course, motherhood isn’t only about the joys. It’s also about the terror. I’ve never been so scared so often. It’s looking up from hanging the hammock in preparation for a nice peaceful afternoon of reading in the shade to...
One last video clip (for now). This one of Bella was taken right after the iPhone clips. I had put the camera down and resolved to take no more video when I looked up to see this: Who could resist? The camera was right there and all I had to do was...
So many people go to church, or don’t go to church for the wrong reasons. How many times have you heard, “I just don’t get anything out of it.”? But guess what, going to church is not really about you, it’s about God...
It’s summer. Time for weekly trips to the Farmer’s Market, fruit and produce piled on the table and counters. And fruit flies everywhere. I used to think there was nothing to be done about the swarms of pests. I just endured and tried to...
