I decided to put my poem a day series on hiatus for Lent, but it seems I can’t escape poetry that easily. The poems came looking for me. St. Peter’s B-list: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Saints edited by Mary Ann B. Miller Dom...
Yet my encounter with God awakens my conscience in such a way that it no longer aims at self-justification and is no longer a mere reflection of me and those of my contemporaries who shape my thinking, but it becomes a capacity for listening to the...
Snow fell but there were still crocuses blooming in the cold. There was snow, but we also had a couple of nice days last week. The kids went outside barefoot. Even Lucia. She was in heaven. Outside, toddling around, on her own two feet. There were...
This is why Marx is wrong and why neither Marxism nor any ideology that promises to give us a perfect world will succeed. First of all, we must acknowledge that incremental progress is possible only in the material sphere. Here, amid our growing...
History is Bella’s great love right now. She begs to read another chapter and then another one. Story of the World is our basic spine. We’re really enjoying the brief biographies in People in History, which covers British history. And...
A friend asked me what we do for a music curriculum and I answered in my typical, long-winded style. I thought I’d share it here, with lots more links, because if one person is curious, there’s probably at least one more person out there...
My first sourdough starter success. Oatmeal whole wheat with a hint of maple syrup. This is bread to make when you have leftover oatmeal from breakfast, which I did. The crust is lovely, thick and crunchy, the crumb is soft and airy. I am so, so...
It’s become a strange little family custom to have our pictures taken on Ash Wednesday. We go to Mass at the Pastoral Center because our parish’s Mass is too late in the morning for Dom. It’s easier for us to just accompany him to...
It still feels weird to me to have the present opening in the morning and the cake and candles at night. Birthday presents and birthday cake seem so necessarily to belong together that to do one without the other makes both seem uncomfortably...
[I’ve decided to put the daily poetry and art series on hiatus for Lent. I may post a poem here or there if I find one I like, I’m not abjuring poetry. But I’m not going to systematically seek one out each day. I want to focus on...