I’m sure you all remember wee Henry, the Ukranian special-needs orphan who was adopted by the Dobrovits family in 2011 and who died last year from a massive post-op infection. It has been a painful year for Henry’s family, and especially for his mama, Carla. Yet I have never witnessed someone still be so thoughtful [...]

Yesterday evening, while I was lying on the floor next to eternally sleep-striking Lincoln, I decided to google myself. Nothing good ever comes of googling yourself. Last night was no exception. I ran across a few posts about how I’m the worst person ever for slamming Michael Voris, and none about how, oh yeah, I [...]

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In what will probably be news to no one, my Lenten lights-out-at-sunset fast was more or less a failure. I say “more or less” because I don’t actually consider it a flat-out failure. The whole point was to try and organize my life so that I would have some time for prayer and silence. When [...]

Yesterday, Elizabeth Duffy wrote this great little “Why I Am Catholic” piece. When I read it, a lot of things that I’ve been mulling over about Catholicism, children, and life in general snapped into place for me. I was never the girl that said, “I want to grow up and get married and have kids.” [...]

Yesterday I was so delighted with Elizabeth Duffy’s 200-word “Why I Am Catholic” offering that I was inspired to write a little post of my own about what all this unruly life that springs out of Catholicism has taught me about, well, life. But then our newest little Catholic life decided that sleeping wasn’t really [...]

Because I’m too exhausted from braiding endless koulourakia and folding endless spanakopita to write a real post, I’m just taking the lazy blogger’s route and re-posting my Greek Easter post from last year. It’s still relevant, though, except I’m pretty much done with the prep work instead of just starting. And so it begins. The [...]

Yesterday, I wrote a 200 word post about why I am Catholic. It was a prompt from the Patheos editors, a little push to get a wide sample of raisons d’etre from all the bloggers across the different faith channels. I loved writing it, because I always love looking back at those who have propelled [...]

When I was a college senior, pregnant, unwed, barely a month off crystal meth, I joked with the Ogre that I might as well just sew a red A on my chest. I said that while we parked, the first day of that first semester back, and I laughed manically and thought I might hyperventilate. [...]

Today I ventured into my Paypal account to transfer the donations I received after the election of Pope Francis to St. Matthew’s House. Apparently Paypal has a limit on the amount of money you can withdraw in a single month. I had never realized this before, because my Paypal account has always been mostly a [...]