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25 January 2025 – What Squirrels do in Winter, How Many Miles is a League, How Much of Spain had been Conquered, the Butchering Bird

My son asked me why there were squirrels everywhere despite the frigid temperatures. "Don't they hibernate?" He'd seen it on SpongeBob so it must be...

Election Season and the Maccabean Revolt

            Maybe the world isn’t run by lizard people per se, but lately, I can...

Book Review: Babbitt

by: Sinclair Lewis Babbit was written in the 1920s by Sinclair Lewis who was a socialist.  Normally, a socialist's commentary on American...

The Children’s Mass

            There were a lot of babies and children at Mass.  Their sounds filled the air.  There was crying, laughing, burbling, shouting, loud...

27 May 2023

Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we...

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Happy Feast of Saint Ambrose

Happy Feast of Saint Ambrose

This is Saint Ambrose. There’s a legend that when he was a baby, a swarm of bees landed on his face and then left the baby uninjured, leaving behind...

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Happy Feast of Saint Nicholas

Happy Feast of Saint Nicholas

This isn't the Coca-cola Saint Nick. This is the keeping young girls from slavery, saving the lives of children, bringing sailors to port safely and...

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