…I’ve been thinking much about beauty lately. I think about children who grow up in homes with drab walls and no books and then spend eight hours of their day in cinder blocked school houses. Or the neighbor kid who comes over occasionally and asks me to play music for him off my iPod. Classical, Klezmer, Bhangra and soulful Morna. Beauty makes the soul soar and it’s as essential to the spirit as food and water is to the body.... Read more

Mary Cassatt, Spanish Dancer Wearing Mantilla Read more

… I did the unspeakable! I sat in someone’s “reserved” seat at church! Scandalous. Art attribution. They exist in every church, that person who sits in the same spot every week. God have mercy on your soul if you happen to accidentally sit in their pew. Read more

… now where’s my trophy? Read more

… I have a female friend whom I love dearly but I swear she makes me so mad some times I could just shake her. She’s a wonderful woman but she clearly lacks understanding the differences between a boyfriend and a husband. You can’t really blame her I suppose. Couples shack up and live as husband and wife all the time. To a woman with no basic understanding of the sacramental nature of marriage it is hard to draw the... Read more

… You think, “If only”, applying today’s knowledge and hindsight to yesterday’s ignorance or naivety. Living your present in regret of the past, you wonder “If only I hadn’t flitted away my youth, I could have been a nun.” If only. It’s one thing to learn from our past, it’s another thing entirely to be consumed with regret which leads to despair. Too often I hear fellow female Catholics say “I missed my calling.” I used to say that. But... Read more

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MSM media blackout. Read more

…Ivan Kramskoy. Read more

… St. Vincent’s Archabbey in Latrobe, PA. Read more