I just watched our old truck drive away with its new owner. We needed to sell it, but I hated to watch it drive away. It was the first car my husband bought as a grown-up. He was so proud of its shiny blue body and loud, rumbling engine. It was only a few years old at the time, and looked as if it were new. We drove it the long 12 hour drive to visit our parents many times.... Read more

To our friends who are on their way to Alaska. We wish you a safe journey. Let us know when you arrive safely please. Read more

For those who still harbored any doubts about traditional education failing our children, I bring you the startling revelation of Idris Leppla, a SENIOR at Barnard College the United States Naval Academy, to which her mother recently had chauffeured her brother to enroll, “was not a school; this was the military. Gasp…sputter…What? The United States Naval Academy is really the Navy? How could the average person have ever figured that out since they cleverly disguised the name that way? Even... Read more

It was all over the news this morning that some yankees named their baby Wrigley Fields. The parents are die-hard baseball fans and thought it was an appropriate name, all things considered. They gave him the middle name Alexander in case he found Wrigley too difficult when he was an adult. I don’t get what all the fuss is about. Those of us who live south of the Mason-Dixon line have been naming our kids weird things for years. For... Read more

The hermeneutic of continuity: A fitting vestment Go to the Hermeneutic to see the awesome sight of a modern priest saying Mass while wearing the vestments of 2 British martyrs from the reign of Henry VIII. I don’t know how he managed to say Mass without tearing up. Read more

It is a hard fact to learn that little baby squirrels sometimes fall out of trees, and even more difficult to discover that your sweet dog thinks dead squirrels are a good thing. The Little Kids were playing outside before school this morning when they saw a little squirrel fall to its death. They gathered around to look at it and were upset to see it gasp its last breath. Grace, our dog, was not upset at all. She thought... Read more

Today is the Feast of the Martyrs of Korea, Saint Andrew Kim Taegon, Saint Paul Chong Hasang, and those who died with them. I was reading about the foundations of the Church in Korea and found it interesting that the Korean Church is unique in being founded entirely by the laity. When reading the stories of these martyrs on the Patron Saint Index, I had to smile when I read less than a century, it (the Korean Church) could boast... Read more

for a slice of bread or a piece of chocolate cake. No, I’m not on some weird fad diet, that would be easier. Ever since the birth of our latest Little Kid, I have had an allergy to wheat. Even one bite is enough to make the inside of my mouth start burning and itching and an entire piece will set off a migraine headache and enough nausea to keep me in bed for the rest of the day. Most... Read more

  I promised to share my explanation of how Purgatory is like the Wizard of Oz on Monday; I just didn’t get to it. So, here it is today. Do you remember on the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy and her friends got to the Emerald City? They went right up to the door and asked to be admitted. The guy in charge of the door inspected them and found them to be worthy to be allowed in the presence... Read more

Very few things make me actually laugh out loud, but this did. Please watch and enjoy! Read more