It will grow back

Fourteen years ago, I came home one afternoon to find that my husband had cut off my toddler’s curls. Teddy was 22 months old, and when I left the house he had sweet baby curls on his neck.  Now he had a big boy haircut.  Of course, I started to cry.  Not-quite-three year old Jake, [...]

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Bad Songs Revisited

Last time I wrote about bad church music I said there was another song I wanted to write about but I couldn’t remember what it was.  I knew it wouldn’t take long before we sang it again, and sure enough, last week, there it was.  I’m sorry, again this is a song that everyone else seems [...]

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Traditions

I just finished reading Good Morning, Merry Sunshine: A Father’s Journal of His Child’s First Year, which I picked up at my parish’s wonderful monthly Book Swap.  The title comes from the father’s habit of saying this each morning to his baby girl when he goes to pick her up out of her crib when [...]

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In the Midst of Life We Are in Death

November is a natural time to reflect on our mortality, when the religious, the secular, and the natural all join to remind us that fleshly existence has an end.  The Catholic Church remembers the dead on the feasts of All Saints and All Souls, and many parishes encourage members to inscribe the names of their [...]

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I Miss Blogging

Just a quick note to say that I have not run out of topics, only time.  One day I will write the story about the unpaid job that ate my life, but not today.  I have so much I want to say–I am always composing posts in my head–but I find myself too tired for [...]

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Embryo Adoption

The following was one of my last columns for the East Tennessee Catholic.  I did a quick check before reprinting it here to make sure that it still accurately reflects the Church’s position on this issue.    Most of the mail attorneys receive is dry and uninteresting, as you might expect.  But the brochure I pulled out of [...]

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PayBox

PayBox.  I encourage you to check this out.  It’s a new payment system similar to PayPal except that it will be trading its own currency.  You can read more about it at the link if you are interested.  They are recruiting early bird users right now to test the system out.  You get paid $20 [...]

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Morning Walk

How lucky am I to be able to take a morning walk in my own back yard and see the following scenes: And what drew me out into the yard so early in the first place?  THREE DEER, whom I watched from my bedroom window while they grazed.  It was a good start to the [...]

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