When Charity and Love Prevail

When Charity and Love Prevail

Charity is the theological virtue by which we love God above all things for his own sake, and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God (Catechism of the Catholic Church 1822). I have a clear memory of myself as a little girl, pondering God and his ways. How could...
What I Read in May

What I Read in May

Y’all, I read TEN books this month! I kicked it off with Anne’s House of Dreams. You know, I never realized before how wildly varying in style the Anne books are. In contrast to the primarily epistolary structure of Anne of Windy Poplars and the episodic...
What I Read in April

What I Read in April

April was a month in which I read parts of a lot of books which I will finish and post about NEXT month. I did meet my five book goal for April though! Continuing with my re-read of the Anne of Green Gables series, I read Anne of the Island, in which Anne goes to...
My Pandemic Year

My Pandemic Year

March 2020. It was the beginning of the pandemic–schools had just been shut down. Everything was strange and I was afraid. I had been walking at the park down the street from my house since the beginning of the year–I’d stop on my way to pick up the...
What I Read in March

What I Read in March

I read a lot in March! I am once again becoming the girl who always has a book in her hand, and I love it! I was not expecting to read The Turn of the Key, which was a book Emily got for herself at the library.  But as she described the plot, I became intrigued. ...
What I Read in February

What I Read in February

I met my five-books-per-month reading goal for February, plus I read parts of lots of others.  It seems weird to think of reading as something I need to schedule, but thinking of between three and five in the afternoon (when I don’t have anything pressing going...
A Third Trip to San Francisco

A Third Trip to San Francisco

Exactly one year ago today as I write, I was enjoying my third trip to San Francisco to spend time with my middle son.  In fact, that is also where I was two years ago and three years ago today, give or take a day. This is poignant for more reason than one.  Not only...
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