I rhyme To see myself, to set the darkness echoing. — from Personal Helicon Seamus Heaney introduced me to Ireland and lured me into Irish studies. Had I not encountered Heaney as an undergrad — that lecture I attended on modern Irish...
From my mom, a beautiful article by a woman in my dad’s Carmelite community. Something about the way she frames things…. I want to be more prayerful and intentional in my work. Things to ponder. When my kids were small, I used to go with...
Lucia’s new fascination is for knocking down block towers. It’s such fun I will sit there and build towers for her to destroy again and again. And she even is so intent on destroying towers that she forgets she’s on her belly and...
So yeah. We’ve had a hard few days. Saturday night Anthony screamed most of the night. Dom ended up driving him around at 1 am till he fell asleep. Then he woke up when they got out of the car. Sunday morning we split Masses so Anthony...
A friend on Facebook shared this fascinating article about sleep: Your Ancestors Didn’t Sleep Like You We used to sleep in two shorter periods, over a longer range of night. This range was about 12 hours long, and began with a sleep of three to four...
So today we went to the Museum of Fine Arts again. I had an auto-call late last week or early this week reminding me to renew our membership, which expires at the end of this month. The voice recording also informed me about the new exhibit of...
Our new front garden with three girls. Yes, the sunflowers are now taller than Bella. We’ve got a few blooms in our little wildflower garden. Such a happy spot of green to greet us every time we walk out the front door. + + + I actually had a...
The other day the kids were painting while I nursed the baby. Of course when I finished I found they had made a terrible mess. I left the paint bin down on the table and they had taken out all the glitter glue and fingerpaints and water colors. It...
Here’s a picture of me and Lucy so this post doesn’t look too bare. So my blog crashed. You might have missed it. I certainly did. I felt like someone had amputated a part of my brain. We’ve been planning to migrate to Word...
Bad Catholic has a thoughtful post, The Problem with Youth Ministry that echoes many of my own misgivings and makes some points I hadn’t thought of before. Youth ministry as a primary catechetical and evangelical tool only exists as a...
