The standard work week, as we know, is supposedly 40 hours. However, according to research conducted by Gallup we are actually working an a... Read More ...
I had to come to DC for eight weeks of classes this summer. My parents, my three kids, and our family dog came with me, which made for a fu... Read More ...
Despite my most valiant hopes, the unexecuted Saint Patrick’s Day activities and recipes lay dormant within the World Wide Web. For the fou... Read More ...
The Lord doesn’t call us to be successful, he calls us to be faithful. That age-old saying has comforted me in many life situations where i... Read More ...
Imagine having no concept of life outside of the town in which you grew up. You live before technology enabled sightseeing from the comfort... Read More ...
Have you ever felt like everything was going well, things were finally looking up...and then The Thing happened? Have you ever looked back ... Read More ...
Truth. It is what it is. And yet these days it’s become rather subjective—debates often end with statements like “well, that’s your truth a... Read More ...
Athletes like runners, cyclists, and swimmers recognize that having the right outfit enables them to perform at optimal levels. As an avera... Read More ...
A Review of Sunday Will Never Be the Same by Dawn Eden Goldstein (Catholic Answers Press, 2019, 255pp)
In this age of truncated attentio... Read More ...
May is Anencephaly Awareness Month. In our family, we are now intimately aware of anencephaly, but we weren’t always.
I had heard of ane... Read More ...
Léonie Martin is arguably the least known and admired member of her entire family, but I doubt she minds. She’s used to being in that posit... Read More ...
I’ll never forget the words during the homily of my wedding Mass. Father Kopil opened the homily, “’For better or worse’ isn’t really teste... Read More ...
Goodwill has saved my sanity. The store, that is (though a giant heaping of the lowercase version would do similar wonders for my mental he... Read More ...
Do you ever feel like your life is a little bit like being on a hamster wheel? Each morning, you hop on the wheel and rush through your day... Read More ...
I did not know myself to be frustration-intolerant until I was middle-aged. It wasn’t just the wisdom of more birthdays that made my diagno... Read More ...
Time. It is a blessing and a curse. Though we all have the same amount of hours on any given day, as a single woman I have more time for my... Read More ...
