CREDO: Professing the Creed for the Year of Faith AND WAS BURIED by Melanie Bettinelli I am reckoned as one in the tomb; I have reached the end of my strength like one alone among the dead; like the slain lying in their graves; like those you...
1. Were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon actually in Ninevah? 2. Bearing writes the post I was going to write, thereby saving me the trouble: The problem’s not that we sexualize breasts, but that we’ve lost the sense that sexuality is...
While I’m dragging my feet on publishing my follow-up post about the second half of Forming Intentional Disciples, I’d like to draw your attention to CatholicMom.com’s Summer Reading “Lawn Chair Catechism” program:...
John Singer Sargent [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons” Isabella Stewart Gardner by John Singer Sargent Today we took a field trip to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Dom got a Living Social deal and we figured it was about...
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom I liked this so much better than any other Holocaust book I’ve read with the possible exception of Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning. I wish I had read this at school instead of Anne Frank...
The morning of her seventh birthday Bella exclaimed: Oh I just love books! It’s a good thing since they were the bulk of her presents. Because I love to read and to share book lists, here’s what she got: 1. My First Sewing Book: Hand...
For her seventh birthday breakfast Dom made chocolate chip pancakes and bacon. On the way to the farmer’s market Bella exclaimed “Everything looks different today.” Indeed everything does. I can’t believe it’s been...
CREDO: Professing the Creed for the Year of Faith HE SUFFERED DEATH by Priest’s Wife He was a man of suffering. Yet it was our infirmities that he bore, our sufferings that he endured, While we thought of him as stricken, as one...
Jumping in on this meme from Brandon of Siris which I stumbled upon via Darwin Catholic. Because I can’t resist a good book meme. And I’m in complete solidarity with Mrs. D. When I’m pregnant I read an awful lot of juvenile fiction...
All Things Bright and Beautiful by Cecil Frances Alexander and illustrated by Bruce Whatley This week Anthony has discovered this picture book and has been requesting it every day at naptime. “Sing,” he commands me. This is an...
