…God bless turkeys, God bless sheeps…. This morning I met up with my sister-in-law and another mom in her homeschooling group to go strawberry picking with all the kids. As it turned out the farm in our town closes the strawberry patches...
Sophie, my baby who slept through the night in her second week home from the hospital, has been having trouble sleeping recently. I’ve been tired and cranky having a nursing baby in my bed all night. And yesterday was one of those days...
The New Learning that Failed: On the value of classical learning To add to the files of items diagnosing the ills of the modern academy. An interesting article that examines what exactly has been lost in universities since the classical idea of...
The Historical Events in the Life of Jesus Christ In introducing children to the Bible, Cavaletti feels it is best to begin with the life of Christ, not with retracing the development of the covenant between God and man through its successive stages...
Catholic, Reluctantly by Christian M. Frank is the first in the new John Paul 2 High series edited by Regina Doman and published by Sophia Institute Press. Imagio Catholic Fiction seeks to counter the despair, cynicism, and amorality of...
Isabella’s first gingerbread man. He didn’t put up much of a fight. Saturday morning we went to the farmer’s market for the first time this season. We didn’t buy much because I went grocery shopping yesterday and forgot that...
Or maybe the question is: What Is Catholic Imagination? I’ve been reading mainly Catholic writers recently: Rumer Godden, Michael O’Brien, Jon Hassler, Dean Koontz, Regina Doman. Not that I planned it that way, it just sort of happened...
Dom and I are still eating dinner, Bella has decided she’s done and is running around and occasionally eating a bite from my plate. Sophia is in the baby rocker on the floor next to my chair. I look down and see Bella holding her dolly by both...
Every night we begin our family prayer time with each of us blessing everyone else with holy water. Isabella frequently gets excited and wants to touch everyone’s forehead multiple times. Tonight as we were saying prayers I looked up to see...
I’ve been sitting on my review of Catholic, Reluctantly for a while now. Actually since before Sophia was born. I’ve been pondering and mulling things over and can’t decide how to start, what is my entry point. Because really...
