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Famous People
So at Mass last night, I had the honored distinction of sitting in front of not one, but two celebrities! One was a local weatherman (he counts, because he’s ON TV), and the other, I’m pretty sure, was...
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Back in Full Effect
I haven’t posted in like a year. A lot’s gone down since then! Mostly, I’ve had a baby. A boy, who is 7 months old now and beautiful and marvelous and who has the funniest personality. Nothing...
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Lent
My son is learning how to sleep through the night. He used to wake up every two hours. Then he’d wake up every four hours. I thought I could make it on four. I can’t make it on four. So we got the...
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Name Day
Last Saturday was Dominic’s name day, a tradition that I have never celebrated before now but that I really like. From what I understand, celebrating a Name Day means learning more about the Saint you...
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Best Chapel Speaker Ever.
There’s a scene from the Wes Anderson film “Rushmore” when Max Fischer, played by Jason Schwartzman, sees Herman Blume’s character (Bill Murray) give a speech at his school. It’s a short speech,...
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A Song for Sunday
“It’s about God putting us into the house that He’s building. It’s about belonging.”
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Cutest Thing Ever!
Dominican Sisters finding out that we have a new Pope! This is wonderful, adorable, and just lovely
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The Challenge
It’s been a long week and a half for so many people, and instead of trying to figure out how I can best help others, I just feel like running straight to God and hiding in Him. I don’t want to...
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Where is God? …
Where is God? Where can I find Him? We ask. We don’t realize that’s like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean. -Ted Dekker
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On Having Kids
Catholic Wunder-blogger Jen over at Conversion Diary has a new post up today detailing how she answers the question “Are you going to have more kids?” People ask her that because she has 6 already and...
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That’s Enough, My Last Days.
When my son was about a month old and I was permanently attached to the couch because I was nursing pretty much every minute of every day, I got the brilliant idea to watch Stand Up 2 Cancer, a...
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God isn’t going…
God isn’t going to let you see the distant scene. So you might as well quit looking for it. He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future. We do not need to know what will happen...
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A Catholic Heart
When someone asks you to describe the Catholic Church, what do you think of? I mostly think about a heart, first – a beating thing, a live thing. A thing that pulses and moves and squirms when you...
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7 Quick-Takes Friday
(The Million Years Since I Did This Edition) 1. I have a one-year old! Little man is growing up kind of fast. Someone said a quote once (I forget who) that said that the days are long, but the years...
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Saint Anthony’s Fan
World Youth Day starts this week! Although I’m not there physically (and probably won’t be in spirit since I barely have time in the day to think about things other than baby stuff), I am really...
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I’m sorry.
I’m going to post more. Like, soon. Sentences with real words in them about God and praying and how He doesn’t do what I want Him to do because I’m a huge brat who gets scared when things don’t go...
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Greatness.
First things first: It’s 1998 week over at vulture.com! In which I am reliving the awesome pop-culture world of my freshman year of college. It’s all there: YM magazine, Dawson’s Creek,...
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A Peanuts Thanksgiving!
http://www.relevantmagazine.com/culture/tv/what-peanuts-got-right-about-thanksgiving Check out my newest over at Relevant Magazine!
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Trust.
MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following...
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Winning the Lottery
Perusing some blogs today, I came across this one, written by a woman reflecting on the huge amazeballs of a lottery that happened this past week. She mentioned what she would do with the money, but...
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