Just one more week until the Faith and Family Mom’s Day Away! There’s still time to register, so I hope you can go! It’s in Stoneham, MA, very close to Boston. I know several women will be bringing their babies with them, and Danielle Bean tells me: We purposely made all the “prayer in the chapel” type of stuff optional so that moms with kids or moms who came mostly to socialize won’t feel “stuck” in quiet places. The church... Read more
Oh, I forgot to mention that today’s post is up at the Register! There, now I mentioned it. Read more
All this talk about young married couples has sent me on a trip down memory lane, back to the old days when my husband was naught but a boyish husband-to-be, and I was a blushing maiden of 22. And by “maiden,” I mean I was 22. Ah, yoot! We did go to marriage preparation classes. They were held by another couple in their comfortable home. It was a little too comfortable, as I recall: they installed me next to the... Read more
Boy, that was quite a day, yesterday! Thanks again, everyone, for a great discussion. The second day of a big post tends to be a little crummier — the piece gets links on less-friendly message boards, and you get a lot more of the “I have no intention of reading this Godless piffle, but let me tell YOU a thing or two” kind of comments. So I guess what I’m saying is, if you subscribed to comments, look out. Also,... Read more
image source When Catholics talk about NFP, someone always asks rather plaintively why the Church doesn’t just clear up all the confusion about what does and does not constitute a legitimate reason to avoid a pregnancy. Why not just make a list: on the right, good reasons for postponing a pregnancy; on the left, bad reasons? Obviously we should still pray and try to discern God’s will for us — but why does it have to be so vague? Why... Read more
Good morning! I’m working on an actual post for my actual blog; I really am! It’s just too long still, but I’m hoping to carve it down to something palatable. In the mean time, here’s my post for the Register today: “Gender Studies.” I’m all nervous because I’m afraid people are going to think I’m saying that all women should be barefoot and pregnant and making waffles all the time, and all men should be swaggering brutes who ride off... Read more
No, not the one from Xena, Warrior Princess that I couldn’t put a picture of on a nice Catholic blog because she seems to have misplaced her wardrobe. Varia like “thisa and thata,” but more literary! Me write stuff! 1. Check out my quickie post, “Every Part of the Buffalo,” on the Register today, if only for the very nice picture of a buffalo. 2. Today in the mail, I got my copy of Our Sunday Visitor with my guest... Read more
Thursday morning, I will have a post up at the Register about a new NFP charting app for iPhone/iPad. (UPDATE: the post is here.) It’s a fairly straightforward and innocuous piece — just a review with a few lines of comment from the developer. Doesn’t get into theology at all, or discuss sex or anything. BUT, it’s about NFP. I’ve been around that mulberry bush a couple of times, and I know that no good can come of this. Or,... Read more
Double double that that Double this Double that Double double this that. Phew, now I feel better. I’ve been listening to that chant for many a day now, and I’d just like to make it perfectly clear to the director of the school that, for every time I hear my kids start up again with the “double double this this, ” I deduct ten dollars from the hefty endowment I was thinking of maybe some day leaving to the school,... Read more
It’s a two-fer! One: Seven Quick Takes, hosted by the hostest with the mostest Post-its (get it? In the picture. What?), Jen Fulwiler of Conversion Diary (and, among other things, the Register blog). Oh, so that’s one. Two is that I am crapping things up at the Register today with a little Lenten Quiz: JUST HOW HOLY ARE YOU? Come find out! And see how long it takes before someone notices, and becomes offended that, there is no such... Read more
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