Bella’s naptime reading choice today: a novena to Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta. The Missionaries of Charity sent me the pamphlet and some holy cards last year when my sister-in-law asked them to pray for me following my miscarriage and...
Amy has a great post up (delightfully rambling in a way that makes me feel much less guilty for my frequent verbal meanderings) about online arguments and people’s defensiveness and inability to accept criticism. It’s worth a read. But...
Last night I was reading Jesus of Nazareth before bed and was struck by this passage from the chapter on the Sermon on the Mount: But it may be a good idea—before we continue our meditation on the text—to turn for a moment to the figure...
from “The Tears of Abraham,” an essay by R.R. Reno: Abraham�s mourning over Sarah tells us something about the psychological effect of what Hans Urs von Balthasar calls �the dramatic rhythm� of salvation history. The covenant promise...
Stuck in the waiting room this morning for a long time, television on. Don’t get me started about how much I hate the ubiquitous need for background noise. Impossible to read not only because Bella was with me but because of the yammering tube...
I opened the blind above my kitchen sink this morning and saw a hawk (not clearly enough to identify precisely what he was) sitting on the fence right beside our minivan. He kept diving at the little sparrows in the bushes, I couldn’t see them...
Bella does something to her hair while she’s asleep. Or maybe it’s Queen Mab and her flock of little people. Every morning when she awakes the hair above her forehead is teased and matted into a terrible mess that takes me forever to...
I just finished reading Best Things in Life. Very enjoyable, as I’ve found every one of Peter Kreeft’s books that I’ve picked up so far. The Best Things in Life is a Socratic dialogue, literally. Socrates shows up at a modern...
A new trend, or maybe not so new, maybe just a new awareness on my part, finally putting the pieces together: Bella frequently gets very insistent about reading books when there’s an underlying issue such as hunger or tiredness. Often when I...
For my Lenten reading I’m slowly working my way through the Holy Father’s latest book. I’ve been reading a little bit at a time just before bed each night. As I remarked to Dom last night before he drifted off, I feel like...
