The Sandwich Generation: A Multi-Layered Life
The Sandwich Generation: A Multi-Layered Life Enjoy my article at CatholicMom.com
Pray Fast! Don’t Give Up!
Pray Fast! Don't Give Up! My article at CatholicMom.com
Interview With Caitie Crowley, author of Stepping Up: How Christ Turned My Pain and Suffering into Hope and Joy
Interview With Caitie Crowley, author of Stepping Up: How Christ Turned My Pain and Suffering into Hope and Joy A few years ago, between Thanksgiving and Christmas, two of my sons endured a terrible car crash. Our temperatures dropped below freezing during the night, so the Wisconsin backroad that they traveled that morning was…
Excerpt: Champions of the Rosary
Excerpt: Champions of the RosaryChapter 2: Sister Adele's Story “Children, you’ve heard my story so many times, and now you want to hear it again?” she asked.“Yes, Sister, all of it, please!”Sister smiled at each youngster sitting before her. Her eyes rested on Philip. As usual, he was sitting on the floor in the front row so that he…
Excerpt: Giorgio’s Miracle (Chapter 6: Two Thieves)
Excerpt: Giorigio's Miracle Chapter 6: Two Thieves As they crept through the city of Exilles in search of their opportunity, they came across a beautiful church. Vincente spoke first, saying to Martino, “Why not begin here? Surely there is plenty of gold and expensive cloth to be had! Maybe silver and some gems as well,” he added as he tried…
Excerpt: Lepanto’s Lady
Excerpt: Lepanto's Lady “Here, Rosa, for you. A new weapon.”“Weapon? Your rosary, Papa? For me?”“For you. Mama won’t be gone for too long, but for me, it is uncertain. You know that. This is a terrible thing, this war, but it has to be accomplished. It must be won. For the sake of the Church, for the world.”“Papa,…
Building the Home Library: Part 2
Building A Home Library: Part 2 The works of Sophocles, Socrates and Plato sat together on the dusty bottom shelf, concealed in a cramped corner, of our small town, public school library. Cobwebs covered Plato’s Republic adding irony to his allegory of “The Cave.” I slouched under the study tables, reading these seemingly neglected works, discovering these old,…
Building the Home Library: The Case for Books, Part 1
Building A Home Library: The Case for Books, Part 1 My living room library is an ongoing labor of love. Upstairs in the hall and bedrooms of our old farm house, bookcases are bulging with over-used (somewhat abused) homeschool curriculum, along with non-evolving histories, honest biographies, legendary, heroic adventures and all other literary facts and fictions that we’ve…
Pilgrimage and Penances: Sofa! So Good
Monday morning found me moaning, slumped on my slouchy couch, babying a reoccurring back pain from an old injury. After wrestling all night with shooting pain, finally at 5 a.m., there on my saggy-in-the-right-spot sofa, I could feel the pressure leaving, the pinched nerve pain dissipate, and peace of mind returning. My very happy vertebrae were slowly sliding…
Spiritual Selfcare: Having Holy Habits
Being a faithful Catholic woman has never been easy. When we’re living our faith to the fullest, most of our days are maxed out with “regular” responsibilities. The chasing of children, the juggling of jobs, the busy-ness of parish ministry, our own “vocation within a vocation” and everything and everyone sandwiched in between, can work to wear us…