When I was in high school at Incarnate Word Academy, I had a favorite nun, Sr Philomena. She was all of 4\u201910\u201d with the best Irish brogue I\u2019ve ever heard. After more than 30 years in this country, she still had that lovely lilt and cadence to her voice. I loved her. She was wry and sarcastic and had a merry step and twinkling eyes. I could never figure out why she had never married, but had become a nun instead. One day I finally asked her, and here is her explanation (Please read with your best Irish accent, it would make me so happy. Thanks.):<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I was about sixteen,\u201d she said. \u201cI liked to kiss the boys. That\u2019s not true. When I was sixteen I liked to kiss the boy who lived next door. He was lovely to look at and heaven to kiss, as long as he didn\u2019t talk too much. Anyway, one day my dad caught us necking in the haystacks and pulled us both up by our ears and said to me, \u2018You have two choices right now, you can marry him or you can go to the convent.\u2019 I looked long and hard at the neighbor boy\u2019s pretty face and said, \u2018Then take me to the convent. He\u2019s a lot of fun for kissing, but he\u2019s kind of an idiot.'\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When I was in high school at Incarnate Word Academy, I had a favorite nun, Sr Philomena. She was all of 4\u201910\u201d with the best Irish brogue I\u2019ve ever heard. After more than 30 years in this country, she still had that lovely lilt and cadence to her voice. I loved her. She was wry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n