We have this wonderful fire pit in the backyard.  It’s the only successful outdoor project I’ve ever accomplished (never mind that you’d have to be carried off by wolves halfway through in order NOT to succeed at something so simple).  I just dug a wide, shallow hole in the grass and then ringed it with the biggest rocks I could find. It’s so great to have a spot for a campfire.  Little kids roast marshmallows medium kids loll around it... Read more

Why?  Because it keeps raining here and I was bored. Edited to add:  just in case  anyone missed the fun the first time around: Pants:  A Manifesto (my first response to the supremely creepy original message from Catholicity) Pants Pass (a printable card to keep with you in case you need to pop out to the store for more corset starch) WWMD  (a gentle reminder that Mary wasn’t actually made of plaster)                   Read more

Here is my article about Erasmus Institute of Liberal Arts, the new college founded by Peter Sampo and Mary Mumbach, who founded and ran my dear alma mater, Thomas More, for many years. Read more

My Thomas More friends will remember the insane rumors we heard about what went on at Magdalen College.  Apparently they were all true — but things are really changing over there.  (I’ve heard that some of the old faithful alumni are all up in arms about the reforms, which implies that good things are happening!) Read more

CONCORD – The House voted today by the necessary two-thirds majority to override Gov. John Lynch’s veto of a parental notification law that requires an abortion provider to notify a parent 48 hours before performing an abortion on a minor. Lynch is a decent governor and I believe he’s at least partially responsible for keeping unemployment relatively low in our state (although my husband, like many others, have found work in MA).  But his protest that the parental notification bill... Read more

In which I tell the highly expurgated version of how I decided to marry my husband. Read more

A slice of strawberry tart without so much Corapi in it! But lots of this: Read more

Today at the Register, I’m reviving an older post, Espressivo, in honor of Father’s Day.  On the actual day, I’ll have eight twelve-year-old girls sleeping over and the library summer reading program kick-off party to attend, so in case I forget to say it then:  Happy Father’s Day, Abba!  Thanks for the music. Read more

Would you, could you, even if you don’t have any children? Read more

Just before I submitted this piece, it occurred to me that “The Matrix/Weiner Heresy” would have been much more apt, but I didn’t have the noive. Read more