Dear Sully, Once upon a time, there was a famous blogger named Dooce who wrote a letter to her daughter every month for the first five years of her life. Eventually, the letters were turned into a book, which made the already rich and famous blogger even more rich and famous. I thought the letter...
While I was obsessing about things that don’t matter, Amy died. Initial reports say she fell in the bathroom. Hit her head. Passed away. I discovered this on Sunday night, hours after her memorial service had already ended. I’d just put the kids to bed and finally picked up my phone...
“Look at this picture I took of us,” I said, as I turned my iPhone to Robert and showed him my latest Instagram post. “I didn’t know how to caption it, so I didn’t write anything.” “Write, ‘I am not alone,'” he said. “They think you are...
Happy Sunday! Here are some beautiful old hymns sung by students from Fountainview Academy, located in southern British Columbia, Canada. I especially love the first one. It’s a hymn I sung so many times growing up, I Know Whom I Have Believed. It was sung at Eric’s funeral in October...
Mary Undoer of Knots Pray For Us Mother of fair love, I look to you. Take into your hands the ribbon of my life, and see the snarl of knots that keeps me bound to sin, anxiety, and hopelessness. I beg you, Mother, by your powerful intercession and long fingers of love and grace, undo the knots in...
It’s Turtle Tuesday, time to talk about the Rosary, motherhood and Generation Z, the Homelander Generation. For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy. — From What Is Prayer, The...
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten. –Joel 2:25 I’ve managed to come a long way, even though I’ve never won very big. Just look at the little girl on the far left in the above news clipping. That’s me in 1977, getting recognition for coming in...
What Happened To Wearing Veils to Mass? Wearing veils to Mass is a calling, not a mandate. Still, it is a beautiful tradition. On Easter Sunday, my husband Robert and son Sullivan talked Bridgette, our 10-year-old, into wearing her mantilla. (That’s another word for a chapel veil.)...
In 1972, and at the age of five, I was hospitalized for four days at Queen of the Valley Hospital in West Covina, California. When I awoke from surgery, I was alone in my room and was so sedated, I thought my arm, which I had broken, was a monster. I thought the metal clips, which kept the...
Easter cookies, one for each member of our family, compliments of Bridgy! I’ve been rolling out cookie dough on this old marble washstand for nearly 30 years! I bought it in 1992, at the old Spivey’s Antique store on May Avenue in Oklahoma City. Two years after I bought it, I found a...
I took Sullivan and Bridgette to Tennessee for Spring Break for a long overdue visit with my oldest sister. (You can see a picture of us on Instagram.) She will have major surgery on March 27, and I’m not too proud or shy to ask anyone reading this post to please say a prayer for her. The...
I first learned about novenas when my friend Laurie left a little book on my porch when my daughter was in North Africa. I was so worried about my girl traveling so far from home, and the book was an offering of faith, grace, prayer and comfort. It was one of the most generous acts of Christian...
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