Essays

The Homeschool Discernment: With and Without the Rainbows and Sunshine

                  A friend was trying to discern whether or not to start homeschooling her children and she asked for my thoughts on my experiences as a...
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Memento Mori

            “She would have been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life. “ – the Misfit from “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor In Flanner O’Connor’s...
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Jesus the Master Electrician

            Dr. Tim Gray of the Augustine Institute referred to the Ascension of Our Lord as “completing the circuit.”  I thought it an excellent metaphor and it set me to thinking it through...
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A Cold, Dead Heart and a Cold-Blooded Icon

I am not an emotional person.  In fact, I think I am best described as having a cold, dead heart.  A heart of stone would also be apt.  I have always been this way.  I can’t remember a time when it was not difficult for me to...
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What does a Catholic home look like? Part 1

What does a Catholic home look like? Part 1

Oct 30, 2017 | ,

Growing up in the house of Catholics that had left the church, there were only a few items that harkened back to the faith of my parent’s youth.  There was a crucifix and a matching pair of pictures of the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart.  For a time, there was a...

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