On this extraordinary of days... From G.K. Chesterton's, The Ball and the Cross , which I just happened to read this weekend (McIan, the...

Have a wonderful Labor Day weekend, everyone!! Sorry I haven't been blogging lately. So much to do with school starting!! Category: Dop...

Happy Feast Day of St. Monica! Here's a question in four parts. I think Chris and AA could get several, but can they get all of them? ...

The one hobby that I have had for most of my life is genealogy. I think the blend of history and discovery are what hold my interest. I...

Have a blessed weekend everyone. Category: In the beginning The earliest Monastic settlements in Ireland emerged at the end of the 5th centu...

Mum of Six tagged me ages ago for this and I was too busy with all my devotions to get to it until now. Yup. My Five Favorite Devotions 1....

During my week's vacation at the cabin I read Joseph Pearce's biography on Hilare Belloc, Old Thunder . I shouldn't read biograp...

On vacation!! Category: Controversial Catholics This Servant of God advocated distributism, for awhile worked on the staffs of Socialist pub...

Spent the past few evenings hanging out at the local Catholic university library doing a project for my homeschool group. Although the libr...

After last week's toughie, here's more of a softball. Found it in a book I was browsing through at Barnes and Noble. Category: Sain...

Looks like it's going to be a glorious weekend around here!!! Have a good one. Category: Those little town blues These three counties ...

Abortion in U.S. a $1 billion industry: study May 4th, 2010 By Rick DelVecchio Abortion in the United States has become a $1 billion-a-year ...

Cleft into innumerable bits The older I get the more I understand that since I've been a Catholic all my life, not necessarily always a ...

Amentior , it's like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.

Somehow the days are getting away from me. Didn't have a chance to come up with a Jeopardy question last Friday, so am sneaking one in...

The ramblings of a six year old after he watched the DVD of The Land Before Time . "How can there be a land before time? The earth did...

Hope you are all having a wonderful 4th of July weekend. Sorry this is a bit late. The WKJ question this weekend should be about American...

I just finished watching A Man for All Seasons , about the conflict between St. Thomas More and Henry VIII. It was a good movie to watch wh...

Have a good weekend everyone!! Category: Unintended consequences It wasn't until the late 18th century that this country was significan...

Sister joked this morning when she saw me that I returned for another day of Vacation Bible School. Here's our crew. With it being so ...

I was talking with my brother-in-law's mother over the weekend and somehow the topic of First Communion came up. Next year my son, God-...

With Vacation Bible School this week, things will be pretty busy and blog posts limited. Add to that music and guitar lessons for my son, a...

Panegyric/panegyrist pan·e·gyr·ic (pn-jrk, -jrk) n. 1. A formal eulogistic composition intended as a public compliment. 2. Elaborate praise ...

Had an appointment today. Usual babysitters (ie: aunts) were out of town, so I had to take the kids with me. Ah, fun. But, they weren...