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The perfect parent
Back when I had Kiddo1, my mother told me not to try being a perfect mother, but instead to be a good-enough mother. Since there are no perfect mothers, you’d pretty much kill yourself trying to live...
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Putting the capital “I” in “irony”
I read an honest-to-goodness “life changing” article when I was a kid, and it came back this week like the Ghost Of News Articles Past. I’m pretty sure the article came from Catholic Digest: a woman...
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I wouldn’t have gone back either
I have a question: Did Jesus like people to follow the rules? Jesus said that not one jot of the law would pass away, and he certainly followed the rules himself (see the bit about paying the Temple...
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The good you see before you
I was listening to a youtube video today while knitting a shawl (a shawl that fills me with panic again on every row, because it’s only getting larger. It started by casting on eleven stitches, but...
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Pizza and sainthood
On Sunday I ended up at a bowling birthday party, the kind where thirty four-year-olds produce a slow-motion physics video of a bowling ball in realtime. After the bowling they had pizza and cake, and...
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Breaking the yarn
Two weeks ago, a friend showed me a shawl she knit for a woman with breast cancer, and I said, “Philangelus, you idiot…” because I too know a woman with breast cancer. And suddenly I needed to knit her...
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In which my cynicism astounds even me
Yesterday I followed a Twitter link to a survey about the rosary. It began normally enough (age, gender) and then started asking whether I’d ever used a rosary aide. The only “rosary aides” I own are...
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Ash Wednesday’s schedule fun
Ash Wednesday is not an HDO, but we like to go to Mass anyhow. Typically my Patient Husband takes the school-bound Kiddos to the 6:45AM Mass and then I go at 9 after dropping off Kiddo4. This year, the...
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PerNoWriLent
Lent is a superb time to get fed up with yourself. I’m a writer who’s got a novel-in-progress since, oh, forever. I blogged about it, and everyone liked the idea. I told my agent about it, and...
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Eggo Waffle, Your Holiness?
The first action of Pope Francis was to get all my laundry folded. I found out about the white smoke via Twitter and immediately searched up a live feed, then propped the computer on an inverted...
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You’re in Paradise. Take the Advil.
Just yesterday, someone was telling me about a trip she’d taken with her elderly mother. It sounded like a fantastic trip, the kind you take once in a lifetime — and given her mother’s age, that’s...
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Getting out of the way
It took me twelve years to forgive someone who ought to have known better. This was someone in authority who, when notified of the wrongful actions of someone under his chain of command, turned on me...
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Catholic spirituality awards
Note: If you’ve come here from CatholicSpiritualityBlogs.blogspot.com, welcome! – I’m supposed to post this image, and then I’ll tell you why, and why I think it’s a bit misleading. The Frankie award...
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I wouldn’t have gone back either
I have a question: Did Jesus like people to follow the rules? Jesus said that not one jot of the law would pass away, and he certainly followed the rules himself (see the bit about paying the Temple...
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My favorite Ash Wednesday blessing EVER. Really.
There’s a bumper sticker that always makes me laugh. It says, “Jesus loves you. Everyone else thinks you’re a jerk.” (I’m toning down the last word because, well, family-type blog. But beware there...
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God knits a pair of socks
Chapter One: She hadn’t spoken to me in over six months when I contacted her about something. Two days later she replied, “I’m sorry for the delay, but we had to make some end-of-life-care decisions...
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All of me
Last night I was praying about someone very brave. I’m not going to identify her because she wouldn’t want to be identified, but in a situation where someone else needed help, she risked getting hurt...
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He had a bad day
A guest priest says daily Mass on Mondays, and the Monday before last he shared sad news that three nuns he knew from a nearby city had died in Burundi. Yesterday, he was back, and he mentioned it...
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Book Review: Seven Saints For Seven Virtues
Most people have heard of the “seven deadly sins” and may even be able to name them, but fewer have heard of the seven cardinal virtues: charity, chastity, diligence, humility, kindness, patience and...
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Hey, look what I found!
I sold books at my parish craft fair this weekend, which is kind of exciting but not the most exciting thing. You see, when you sell at a craft fair, you’re there before they open, and you can browse....
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