by Leslie Sholly | Jun 15, 2021 | Catholicism
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...
by Leslie Sholly | Jun 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
The popular understanding of religious freedom is the ability to attend the worship service of your choice on a regular basis. But is that a full definition? In Dignitatis Humanae, The Second Vatican Council declared “that the human person has a right to religious...
by Leslie Sholly | Jun 4, 2021 | book review, books, linkups
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...
by Leslie Sholly | May 13, 2021 | Abortion, Babies, book review, books, Catholicism, Education, homeschooling, Life Issues, Parenting, review
I have an article published in the Spring issue of Celebrate Life Magazine. Brooke and Christiane worked with a New York Times best-selling illustrator for four months, providing guidance and ideas for the illustrations. According to Brooke: “The illustrations truly...
by Leslie Sholly | May 5, 2021 | book review, books, linkups
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...
by Leslie Sholly | Apr 30, 2021 | Deep Thoughts
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...
by Leslie Sholly | Apr 7, 2021 | book review, books, Catholicism, linkups
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. ...
by Leslie Sholly | Mar 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
Over the past year I noticed a precipitous decline in my “likes” on my Facebook page, which is where I am most active and therefore is how I tend to gauge my “success” at this social media/blogging thing. This decline coincided with my sharing...
by Leslie Sholly | Mar 4, 2021 | book review, books, linkups
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...
by Leslie Sholly | Feb 18, 2021 | Catholicism, Vacations
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...