Making Un-Resolutions for the New Year
Raise your hand if you’ve ever made New Year’s resolutions. You’ve got your hand raised, don’t you? Me too. It doesn’t seem to matter which stage of life a woman...
Songs of the Season: Advent Music vs. Christmas Music
Welcome to Advent, sisters! Isn’t it wonderful that the time has come to prepare for Christ’s birth yet again? What an absolute joy and gift! Yesterday at Mass, you saw...
More than Saying Thank You: Cultivating Gratitude in Our Teenage Children
In 1 Thessalonians, we read, “In all circumstances give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus" (1Thessalonians 5:18). But trying to teach that lesson...
Unbroken Movie Review
It must have been in about 2014 that I first read the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. Let me tell you, it about gutted me. The Life of Louis Zamperini,...
Angel of God, My Guardian Dear
I remember a print that hung in my family’s kitchen when I was a little girl. You know the one. A little boy and little girl are happily traversing a...
A Busy Mom Uses the Blessed is She Liturgical Planner
Many moons ago, when I was in college, I loved getting my new planner along with my books every fall. The blank pages were so inviting, so intriguing. I relished...
Our Lady of Prompt Succor and Hurricane Season
What if I told you that I could weave a story connecting Napoleon, a 19th century pope, the city of New Orleans, and my home in present-day Florida? Would you...
The Father's Love: Felt, Seen, and Believed
Every year on Father’s Day I get a little sentimental. I can’t help it. You see, I am a daddy’s girl, through and through. I know what it is to...
Why You Should Travel with Your Spouse (and How to Make It Happen)
Ask any mom and she will be able to tell you that there is a very definite distinction between a trip and a vacation. I have four kids. Going away...
A Mother's Prayer for Summer
I’m sure I am not alone in thinking that the winter of 2017/2018 will go down in history as the longest winter ever. Well into April, freezing temperatures and snowfall...
Food as Ministry
Have you ever found yourself standing in the light of the refrigerator in the middle of the night, postpartum body and emotions at extreme levels, crying into a delicious dessert...
Why and How to Start a Meal Train
The arrival of a new baby. Loss of a loved one. Financial difficulty. Illness. Hospitalization. These are just a few of the situations that bring out a family’s need for...
