The South Dakota Prairie. Photo by J. Stephen Conn . In the Creative Commons. Last summer on the way home from our long summer road trip...

From the film Thérè se (1986) directed by Alain Cavalier I had a crisis of faith over the past few weeks. I was not questioning any po...

This baby needs to be rebound... Every couple of years (usually during pregnancies) I pull out our tattered volume of the complete work...

I finally found a use for the hooks between those partitions...   1. Happy Season After Epiphany! We like to celebrate Christmas until ...

Last week, my husband and I got out to the movies to see Hollywood’s latest adaption of the Exodus story, Exodus: God and Kings , directed...

It was a mild December night in Minnesota as a hundred Catholic adults converged upon the beautiful house of a lovely young couple in ord...

Our Christmas Visitor by coblat123. In the Creative Commons. My favorite Advent was the year my second was born. She was due the seco...

Advent is coming and the Catholic world is full of great suggestions of how to prepare for Christmas. I have been given the opportunity to...

G hard at work at my desk years ago when I took her to work with me. There was an outrage on Facebook last Saturday about President Oba...

Author's Hill, Concord, MA. Photo by M. Spencer. Used with permission. It was the hottest week of the year in St. Louis, and we we...

Welcome everyone coming over from Truth and Charity! For the giveaway, scroll to the bottom. ___________ One of the most difficult p...

In the craziness of last Thursday, and my fatigue of the first trimester, I neglected to link to my newest article for Truth and Charity. I ...

My family and I were running just on time for the early Mass last Sunday. Well, actually, we were on track to be about 2 minutes late. W...

A slide depicting the Martin family at home. For the Feast of St. Therésè of Liseux I was thinking about making a dish that called for ...

1. Well, we are four weeks into the school year here at The Awesome School, and I think I am getting a good rhythm. We have found a good ba...

In my latest piece for Truth and Charity, I explained that we Christians need to be on guard against the banality of evil, where evil a...