by Leslie Sholly | Nov 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
Remember how sulky I was last month about having only read three books? Well, I made up for it this month! A major reason for this is that my daughter and I went to a Friends of the Library book sale and I bought so many books at rock bottom prices that I needed a...
by Leslie Sholly | Oct 30, 2022 | Catholicism, Deep Thoughts
People love to make fun of the songs we sang at church in the early 1970s, but I was a little girl then and I remember many of them fondly. Today’s Gospel took me back to that time instantly, to the refrain of a song written by Medical Mission Sister Miriam Therese...
by Leslie Sholly | Oct 17, 2022 | Abortion, Deep Thoughts
Pro-life Profile is a new series I am publishing regularly. These brief interviews highlight pro-life leaders in order to dispel the preconceptions that predominate in the mainstream press and the minds of pro-choice people. I’ll begin with my Vita...
by Leslie Sholly | Oct 13, 2022 | book review, books
Y’all, I am so late with this post that I missed the linkup! But I’m posting anyway because I want to remember what books I read and I am sure you were all waiting breathlessly to read about them. 😉 And the reason I am late is SO LAME. My post was erased,...
by Leslie Sholly | Sep 29, 2022 | Catholicism, Deep Thoughts
I remain a parishioner at the church where I was baptized 55 years ago, meaning I have spent well over 2,000 Sunday mornings there. As a child, my mind and my eyes tended to wander, and the stained glass windows provided both entertainment and enlightenment, as they...
by Leslie Sholly | Sep 9, 2022 | book review, books, linkups
August was NOT a reading month, y’all. Among other things (and aren’t there always other things?), Lorelei started her Senior year of high school, William started his fifth semester of college, and we moved my father across town. Lorelei now has a 7 a.m....
by Leslie Sholly | Aug 28, 2022 | Catholicism, Deep Thoughts
In a world obsessed with social media, many of us judge our worth by how often our posts are liked or shared by others, hoping to go viral, obsessively checking our phones throughout the day when we think we have shared something exceptionally profound or amusing....
by Leslie Sholly | Aug 7, 2022 | book review, books, linkups
I finished my sixth book with just a day to spare and made my six book goal for July. You would think I would have an easier time meeting my goals in the summer but that has not seemed to be the case. Master of Middle-Earth by Paul H. Kocher I picked this up on...
by Leslie Sholly | Jul 28, 2022 | Catholicism, Deep Thoughts
Abba, Abba Father. You are the potter; we are the clay, the Work of Your hands . . . That is the beginning of a song I remember singing often at morning Mass when I was an 8th grader in parochial school. You probably recall the hymnal; it was ubiquitous in the early...
by Leslie Sholly | Jul 27, 2022 | Abortion, Catholicism, Euthanasia, law, Life Issues, Notre Dame, Vacations
I promised to tell you more about the Vita Institute, and this post will be a start. I planned to write everything up as soon as I came home, but as I came down with COVID almost as soon as I returned, I did not have the energy for anything extra. I’m going to...