In a way birth is as much a mystery as death. What life is like before birth is as unknowable as life after death, even though it is in the past we don’t remember life in the womb. Maybe this accounts for the popular conception that souls...
THe baby is doing well. Quite the wiggle worm. Yesterday she kicked the monitor as the doctor was trying to listen to her heartbeat. She also likes to kick daddy, I told him. I’ve been having baby dreams almost every night. Some good, some...
��Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness?� While it lasts, the religion of worshipping oneself is the best. I have an elderly acquaintance of about eighty, who has lived a life of unbroken selfishness and...
My dear husband has tagged me with the �Four Things� meme. (This is because I laughed when he got tagged…) Four Jobs I�ve Had 1. Odd jobs at my parents’ Catholic bookstore (reviewing books, inventory, rearranging statues, making signs...
I just found this great piece over at the Shrine of the Holy Whapping. Here’s an excerpt (but, really, go read the whole thing): I’m in a drawing class right now where we’re copying the techniques of the old...
Mom got us a subscription to National Geographic for Christmas. She figured since we liked it as kids, it would be good for our kids. This month’s issue arrived within days of the release of Pope Benedict’s new encyclical, Deus Caritas...
Feels like spring. I decided to walk down to the park to enjoy the good weather while it lasts. As I was crossing a street I suddenly recalled that the last time I had gone that way I was feeling so very nauseous I was afraid I might throw up before...
At catholicexchange.com by Mary Kochan. Much better than my little ramblings. Check it out.
Mom lent me a good book while we were in Texas over Christmas: The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. I’m a big fan of sci-fi and like time travel stories. This one is different. THe narative structure is part of what makes it...
Of all the Christmas/Epiphany presents I got this year one was clearly the best: the crocheted Noah’s Ark baby blanket my sister Theresa made. She’s a full time student, working on her senior thesis this semester, and yet somehow she...