Here I am, finally sitting down to write this, write something, procrastinating once again (or just finally getting around to this, it’s a dice roll
$30,000. 3 days. We had 3 days to raise $30,000, and I had no idea how we would pull it off. It was my senior
My husband and I are currently navigating our way through our first holiday season as a married couple. Many life lessons learned, many tears of
Last night, my husband Will and I put our little daughter Grace to bed and had our first moments of alone time… barely, before Will had
Advent is my favorite liturgical season. I become extremely excited when Advent is coming, and love observing it by wearing my purple “Advent scarves,” painting
Bigger is always better. That’s the maxim of our culture. From our vehicles to our buildings, from our paychecks to our television screens, we are
Here in the United States, religious liberties are fast eroding Last night on the news, I saw a segment about public schools near me (Montgomery
I have always experienced the Rosary and its fruits as independent items, that is, when I meditate on the carrying of the Cross, I grow
If studying the saints has taught me anything, it is that there are many ways to travel the narrow road to Heaven. While some lived
I am ever more convinced of this: mothers who stay at home with children, especially when it comes to large families, are brave. They put
The sad news that some 55 parishes in and around New York are going to be shuttered (or “merged” with other parishes) has been public
“Anyone who fails to go forward begins to go back, and love, I believe, can never be content to stay for long where it is.”
By now you’ve probably heard of Brittany Maynard. She is a young woman who will be preemptively ending her life on November 1 through physician-assisted
It’s a very long story, but suffice it to say, my husband and I are planning to bring home a dog at the end of
Last week, a viral story started making the rounds about a young woman named Brittany Maynard, a 29 year-old newlywed who was diagnosed with brain cancer in
There is a tendency in ministry to talk about what we do as “ours” or “mine”. I’ve fallen into that trap more times than I
The following was a reflection I prepared for my prayer group, but I am also indebted to them for some of the insights that followed.
When we think about poverty, we usually think about starving children in the third world, the homeless, or the elderly living on fixed incomes. We
Warning: This article deals with infant death and parent grief. Recently Travis and I found ourselves at the hospital at the orthopedic surgeon’s office again. This
Over the summer my dear friend and roommate put together a gorgeous video about why many Catholic women are returning to the old custom of
One of the more popular, misunderstood, and challenging problems Catholics face today is the topic of homosexuality. I think of the many great strides we
