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From Charles Dickens

"... ignore them as children ignore them."

From The Common Man

"...all evil began with some attempt at superiority;"

From The Passion of the Infant Christ

"... a more complete human being..."

From Lunacy and Letters

"If you do not have mirth, you will certainly have madness."
14 May 2023

14 May 2023

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

Francis and Clare

Francis and Clare

by Helen Walker Homan             This was an engaging biography on Saint Francis, though not so much on Saint Clare –...

A Monarch Infestation

A Monarch Infestation

In the course of busy, we were interrupted by unexpected visitors. At the most, we tend to only find three or four Monarch caterpillars on our milkweed. This year, there were close to twenty. And a month early, to boot! They ate all but four branches of my milkweed...

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Becoming a Haiku

Becoming a Haiku

Even as a child, I was fascinated with the concept of Haiku poetry.  It seemed madness to me to take something as free-flowing and abandoned as writing from the heart and applying such Draconian restrictions to it as 5 syllables followed by 7 syllables and...

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It’s Nice to be Back

It’s Nice to be Back

I won’t go into all the reasons as to why I’d stayed away.  Suffice it to say, the Church had always been my sanctuary from the world and then, last year, the world invaded my sanctuary.  And so, befuddled and incensed, I stayed away....

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Wild at Heart and The Way of the Wild Heart

Wild at Heart and The Way of the Wild Heart

by John Eldredge I read these books for research for a book I'm planning on writing. For my purposes, these books served well, though I probably could have gotten away with just reading The Way of the Wild Heart. I needed ideas for male rites of passage and it was...

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Happy Feast Day of Saint Paul VI!

Happy Feast Day of Saint Paul VI!

Born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, it was probably exciting to be made Pope based entirely on name signing time savings alone, nevermind getting to steward Jesus’s church.After being told there were not any shorter names, he decided on Paul and...

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God Designed the Foot, but Can He Be Trusted?

God Designed the Foot, but Can He Be Trusted?

It is sometimes in the unexpected minutiae that we are surprised, once again, by the fact that God’s design works just fine without any human tinkering.  I kept planning to start running again, but various obstacles kept coming up.  Proving forever true the...

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The Habit of Being

The Habit of Being

A Review I was very uncomfortable with Flannery O'Connor's writing. I am a very sunshine-y person who loves to read about my faith so when I heard multiple sources in the Catholic world talk about what an incredible Catholic author she was, I skipped off to my book...

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S(k)in Cancer

S(k)in Cancer

I started the new year with a melanoma diagnosis.  It was a very small tumor that had not spread.  The treatment was to just cut out all the skin around it to make sure there was no remaining melanoma and then spend the rest of my life being vigilant for any...

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