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The True Meaning of Comfort
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever. John 14:16 As I meditated on the concept of Comfort while preparing to write this post, I reflected that it’s a word that evokes strong feelings, and it comes with...
Not Repealed and Not Imploding: An ObamaCare Update
When last I wrote on the topic of healthcare back in February, I envisioned writing many posts on the ACA this year. I was HOT. I wanted to showcase some stories (besides mine) of people who have been helped by the law, and I wanted to encourage activism to prevent...
Talking about Death with Children
As the year dies, it is only natural that our thoughts turn to musings on our own mortality. For Catholics, Halloween is not only about pumpkins and trick-or-treating; it is the eve of the Feast of All Saints, followed immediately by the Feast of All Souls, days set...
Catholic Heritage
“Blood is thicker than water,” was one of my maternal grandmother’s favorite sayings. Family was everything to her. She was extremely proud of her Southern and Irish roots, and often shared tales—possibly apocryphal—of the family history. We are blessed to have...
Finding Faithful Friends
I sat at my desk, head down, long hair hiding my face. On the blue folder in front of me, in Catholic-school cursive, I wrote the word miserable over and over again, covering the folder in a graphite cri de couer, addressed to no one in particular. I was in the...
Mary, My Mother: Quotations and Images
A couple of years ago I started creating quotation images of the Blessed Mother to share on my blog's Facebook page during the month of May. I've been meaning to gather them into one post, and this month's CWBN blog hop, with a theme of Mary, My Mother, is the...
A Confederate General’s Great-great-great-granddaughter Speaks Out
I was eight years old, curled up on the naugahyde sofa in my grandmother's basement, when I found my great-grandmother's copy of Gone with the Wind, the commemorative movie edition. I read it literally to pieces and I can recite the entire first paragraph by heart....
Uncommon Goods: An Uncommon Company (Sponsored)
Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post, y'all. But as always, compensated or not, my opinions are my own. I don't buy many things for me or for my home. Losing everything when my house burned down forced me into a minimalism that I've found hard to shake. But as we...
Fall Break in Kentucky
Would you believe until last year I had never spent a night in Kentucky? I've driven through it on the way to points North, unsurprisingly, but somehow went almost 50 years without vacationing in a state I can drive to in an hour. We remedied that last October during...
Travel Made Cheaper with Groupon
OK, y'all, so I only JUST got back from a short vacation (about which more later!), and I'm already wishing I had known what I am about to share with you before I planned it! I don't know about you but when it comes to traveling, I am always looking for hotel deals. ...
Minnesota Memories
By the time this is published it will have been almost a year since our week in Minnesota--St. Paul, to be exact--where we stayed with our friends Renee and Erik and their daughter, Mikaela. Some background: Renee and I were roommates all four years in college....
Keeping Kids Catholic
When I was a little girl, I hated going to Mass. My father wasn't Catholic, and we all know how hard it is to take little kids to Mass. So for the first six years of my life, I mostly stayed home on Sundays with Daddy. Sometimes we'd drop my mother off and then go...
Everybody Has a Mission
Growing up, one of my most prized possessions was my Webster’s Third New International Dictionary. One of those massive volumes you see (or used to) at the library, it was very expensive, and my grandmother bought it for me so that I could look up pronunciations for...
Just Like That
I'm sitting here in my office working on bills as if it were any other Saturday even though a seismic shift occurred in my world less than 24 hours ago. Because life does, in fact, go on. Twenty-two-and-a-half years ago, give or take, we welcomed our third child. ...
Trusting in God; Giving up Control
Leaps of faith are a fact of life in our family. Our family life has been built on radical acts of trusting that everything would work out one way or the other. John and I had been married eleven months and had a baby on the way when we abandoned good jobs in...
Unexpected Vacation: Harpers Ferry and the Baltimore Museum of Art
In May 2016, almost all our family (Jake excepted) took a short vacation together. Going on vacation all in the same car was something we thought we'd sworn off forever, but this was a quickly planned journey. John's uncle was sick, and he wasn't getting better....
Why I Love My Catholic Faith
As I do every month, I'm linking up today with the Siena Sisters Catholic Women's Blogging Network Hop. You can see from the title of my post what I am supposed to be writing about. And wouldn't you think I'd have been brimming over with things to say? Yet I've...
Shopping at the Farmer's Market
My mother used to take us with her to the farmers' market when I was a little girl. This is how I remember it: We'd drive into a big warehouse on the way home from church. We'd stay in the car while my mother got out to shop. Through the windows we'd catch glimpses...
Out-of-Control Mothering: Putting It All in His Hands
Last night I told my daughter I felt like I had lived at least a month in the past week or so. Have you ever felt that way? Because of all that I and my family have been through in the last twelve days, I find myself starting at my computer screen this morning...
Love Thee, Notre Dame: Teddy’s Graduation
We've just returned from an epic weekend of graduation festivities as Teddy's Notre Dame adventure has come to a close. Four years flew by, as they are wont to do when you have kids, and it won't be long before I'll be writing a melancholy post about having a child...
Junior Parents' Weekend at Notre Dame
Our Notre Dame adventure is about to come to a close. The day this is published, we will be in South Bend for Teddy's graduation, and I'm sure there will be stories and adventures to share! But before that, let's go back to last February, to Junior Parents' Weekend,...
How I Learned a New Way to Pray
Like many Catholics, I am extremely uncomfortable at the thought of extemporaneous praying. Fortunately, I am married to a former Protestant who excels at it and is happy to preside over any occasions (Thanksgiving, for example) when it seems called for. My husband...
Living Hopefully vs. Hopefully Living
Although I graduated from college almost 30 years ago, I still say I AM an English major rather than I WAS an English major. That self-identification is probably indicative of why I enjoy usage manuals like The Elements of Style by Strunk and White entirely too much....
Iris, Resurrected
Mima--my maternal grandmother--loved working in her yard. In my mind's eye I see her kneeling in front of her porch, setting out marigolds and impatiens in the rich black dirt she'd bought at Kmart. Later she'd move to the bed by the street, where the peonies and...
How I Am #RockingMotherhood
It's been three weeks now since Anni tagged me to participate in the #RockingMotherhood challenge. I hadn't forgotten about the challenge--I was just thinking. Because it IS a challenge, in a society that's hell bent on making mothers feel that they are never quite...
How My Faith Helps Me Worry Less
Until very recently, worry and anxiety have not been challenges for me. I have the kind of mind that just doesn't hold on the those kinds of things. Unlike my husband, who is consumed with worry pretty much all the time, making him miserable, I have always been able...
A Front Row Seat
I'm blessed to still be a member of the very parish in which I was baptized as an infant. Most of the past nearly 50 years of Sundays have found me sitting (standing and kneeling) in a pew at Immaculate Conception Church. And like most Catholics, I'm usually in the...
Pleasant Forest: A Tale of Two Cemeteries
Pleasant Forest Cemetery is a hard one to miss. It's enormous, for one thing, and it's on a well-traveled road. I've driven by it many times and it's been on my list to visit for awhile. Occasionally my graveyard trips are serendipitous and unplanned, but for a...
It's No Sacrifice
In thinking about what I could add to the discussion of sacrifice, having come late to the party and drawing the last spot of the month, I turned to one of my favorite sources for information: the dictionary. Quickly I found myself falling down an etymological rabbit...
Things I Like about ME
Five years ago, I participated in an exercise in which bloggers were challenged to post a list of what they liked about themselves. The premise was that most women are a lot better at self-criticism than self-praise, that we are always focused on the ways in which we...
My True Feelings about Confession
So today's post is brought to you courtesy of the Catholic Women's Blogger Network. It's part of our monthly blog hop and I totally would not be writing it if it weren't. Because here's where I peek out from under my somewhat ill-fitting Catholic blogger hat and...
Spring Fun in Chattanooga
We didn't go anywhere for Spring Break this year, except to the zoo. Today's planned trip to Dollywood was canceled due to illness. So I got to feeling nostalgic about last year's Spring Break trip, which I had never gotten around to sharing here. Because I've...
The Lent I Needed
My plans for Lent were modest as such things go, but Ash Wednesday wasn't even over before that old adage: "Man plans, God laughs," came into my head. Y'all, it's hard not to feel you are failing at Lent when you can't even make it to Ash Wednesday Mass to get ashes....
Gatlinburg Is in Business
To celebrate 30 years of couple-hood, John and I stole a weekend away in Gatlinburg. Secure in the knowledge that Lorelei and William were in Emily's capable hands, we headed South on Saturday afternoon. We are so blessed to live so close to Gatlinburg, which feels...
How We Lent around Here
I'm grateful that I'm committed to contributing a post to the Catholic Women Bloggers Network bloghop today, because the truth is our family has been needing to reevaluate "how we Lent." What was once a pretty intense observance has in recent years become fairly...
ObamaCare Update: Good, Bad, and Ugly
Writing about our ObamaCare experiences with the future of the program so much in doubt seems almost pointless, but I did promise to keep honestly updating you so here's the latest. Learning that Blue Cross was pulling out of the Marketplace in our area was really...
When the Nightmare Is Real
I was having one of those dreams last night. You know the kind. They usually happen right before time to wake up, and are inspired by anxiety from the waking world leaking out of the subconscious. I've had variations on this one hundreds of times. but this one took...
John Grissom Returns: Review of The Egyptian Elixir
You might remember a little over a year ago when I reviewed--very favorably--Page Zaplendam's Order of the Blood. I encourage you to click over and read my first review, which also includes an interview with the author. I enjoyed this far from typical vampire novel...
This Is What Democracy Looks Like
Lorelei and I had the opportunity this week to join in a local march in support of refugees and immigrants. This peaceful and patriotic event began in Market Square--Knoxville's downtown gathering spot--with a silent vigil. Then all of us--over 1,100 people,...
When Did Liberals Start Quoting Scripture?
That's what a Facebook friend of mine asked the other day. It's no secret that there are lots of liberal Christians but in recent years they've been loath to use the Bible to make political points. The reasons are many, ranging from a strong belief in the separation...
Can We Learn to Listen?
Flipping through the monthly missalette to pass the time, back in the days when I was a child and Mass seemed to last forever, I'd sing the songs in my head and read the prayers on the back. One prayer struck me so much that I committed it to memory. I haven't...
My Catholic Uniform
We'd often run errands on the way home from school when I was a little girl. That meant we'd be spending the afternoon in red plaid jumpers. And if we got into mischief while our mother was shopping, she'd pull us aside and sternly remind us that we were wearing our...
Why I Blog
I thought about having a blog for years before I finally started one. My first attempt had exactly two entries. Nothing I thought of saying seemed important enough to share with the internet. I would stare at my screen, paralyzed, and the words would not come....
Protest is Patriotism
Protesting is as American as the Boston Tea Party. The First Amendment to our Constitution includes the rights to speak freely, to assemble, and to petition our government for redress of grievances. That sounds like a pretty good description of a protest march like...
Woman Enough to March?
On November 2, 2016 I joined Pantsuit Nation, an online community of Hillary supporters. The group, now almost four million strong, comprised people of many different backgrounds and beliefs, united by our support of Hillary and fear of a Trump presidency. I posted...
KANGEAUX Helps You Go: Sponsored Review
Oh, y'all, I feel so bad about this. I received this product in exchange for my honest review, and somehow I did not get around to writing the review in a timely manner. Now it appears that the company may have suspended operations. And I hate that, because not only...
3DLIGHTFX 3D Deco Lights: Sponsored Review
So, y'all, I am WAY behind in my reviews for US Family Guide (I am always behind). I received this product in December in exchange for my honest review. Here is the company's description of their unique nightlights: 3DLIGHTFX 3D Deco Lights are the perfect gift....
Walk in Her Sandals: A Path to Greater Holiness
Don't laugh, but high up there on my list of personal goals is a desire for greater holiness. I've known a few holy people in my life--have you? They radiate peace and God's love and you feel blessed to be in their presence. I'd like to be one of those people, but...
Open Letter to My Friends Who Want to Repeal ObamaCare
Dear Facebook Friends: Next time you are tempted to gleefully post about how happy you are to see ObamaCare repealed, I want you to think about the people whose lives are going to be affected dramatically when that happens. I want you to think about people who are...
Let’s Get Healthy (But We Won’t Call It a Resolution!)
There's just something about a new year, isn't there? It feels fresh and new and full of possibilities. Hence the talk of resolutions and the increase in gym membership purchases! I am reluctant to commit to something so definite and portentous as resolutions any...
Crabpot Trees SPONSORED Review
Before I even give my usual disclaimer let me tell you that I LOVE LOVE LOVE my crabpot tree! Yes, I received said tree for free in exchange for my honest review of it here, in my capacity as a blogger for National Family Guide. But it's not even stretching the truth...
2016 in Review: Your Favorites, My Favorites
It's year three of this fun (well, I think it's fun) tradition, where I highlight the five posts that WordPress claims were my most viewed for the year, and then the five that were my own favorites. Which, for some reason, are never the same! None of the top five...
12 in 2016: A Year in Pictures
This is a little exercise I've been taking part in for three years now. It's always fun to look back over the year, and this year I am struck by two things: 1) How much Lorelei used my phone to take pictures of Webkinz this year and 2) How many adventures I had that...
Fear Fighting: When You’ve Gotta Have Control
Today I'm sharing a guest post by Kelly Balarie. More details on Kelly and her new book are at the end of the post. When I thought about fighting as a child, it was normally with my siblings. I'd sink my nails into them, they'd shriek. I'd see an injustice, like them...
Putting Christ in Christmas
When our first child was a baby, 25 years ago, I had very specific ideas about Christmas that went along with my ideas about being a perfect mother. From time to time when I was a child, my mother would suggest we should cut back on Christmas gift giving and...
More Than a Night Light: 3DLIGHTFX 3D Deco Lights (Sponsored)
Here's another product I will be getting free in exchange for reviewing it on behalf of U.S. Family Guide. I was SO excited when I saw this product but I'm not going to tell you which one I ordered until it arrives. 🙂 As always, the company wants me to share some...
Photo Books from AdoramaPix (SPONSORED)
I'm here today to give my honest review of the AdoramaPix photobook I told you about several weeks ago. I worry that you won't trust a review that is as glowing as the one I am about to write. But I assure you that even though I received this product ($50 value!)...
FREE 12×8 Canvas Print: Sponsored
Just jumping off of politics for a minute to offer you a fun deal for Christmas. Obviously, this is a sponsored post and I will be receiving a free product in exchange for my participation which I will review honestly after I receive it. If you would like to take...
Good People?
My high school French teacher, Sister deLellis, had a favorite saying that popped into my head today: "Tell me who you go with and I'll tell you who you are." For the past year, many of my friends who termed themselves reluctant Trump supporters assured me repeatedly...
We Didn’t Start the Fire . . .
Tennessee is on fire and Donald Trump is the President-Elect. The haze that hangs over Knoxville matches the haze in my head and my heart. It's hard to think and hard to breathe. On Election Day many of us headed off to the polls excited about a bright new...
How to Celebrate Advent When Everyone Thinks It’s Already Christmas
No joke, y'all, I started seeing houses with their Christmas lights up just after Halloween. Is it any wonder that there will be Christmas trees lying on the curb by Christmas night, tossed out by people who have celebrated themselves out before the guest of honor...
ObamaCare in Practice: An Update
The first year we had health insurance via the ACA, I updated y'all frequently and promised to keep doing so. I realize that's a promise I didn't keep. Now that the law's very existence is threatened, it seems like a good time to share how it's been going for us in...
Election Day! In (Mostly) Pictures
All I want to do right now is read the internet obsessively and get ready to watch election coverage. But it's NaBloPoMo, and I have to post something. So I'll do a quick Election Day photo essay! Even though there was no school today, I got up relatively early, and...
Why is This Election Different?
On the eve of the 2012 Presidential Election, I put up a post about how I would be voting, and why. By now, if you've been keeping up, you know whom I will be voting for tomorrow. And I've even explained how I approached making this decision, as a Catholic. What you...
Catholic Voting 101: A Guide for the Confused
It's come to my attention that many (maybe even most?) of my fellow Catholics are a bit confused on the issue of voting. How do I know this? Because FACEBOOK, mostly. If any Catholic is on Facebook telling any other Catholic that he or she is in a state of mortal...
I’m a Pro-Life Catholic and I’m with Her
A few days ago I was invited to join a secret Facebook group. I posted what follows by way of introduction and was overwhelmed by the support, understanding, and acceptance I received, even from people whose beliefs are very different. Because so many people wanted...
VOTING: Not Toeing the Party Line
After I was recently accused of being a "Democrat down to my toes," my daughter bought me the socks in the picture above. And while it's true that I call myself a "pro-life Democrat" in my Twitter bio, the reality is somewhat more complicated. My earliest political...
Crab Pot Trees: Beautiful and Convenient (Sponsored)
I know it's early, y'all but some folks do like to plan ahead. Here's an offer from US Family Guide: Crab Pot Christmas Trees are remarkable, perfectly shaped trees that are pre-lit, fold flat for storage, sparkle from EVERY angle and are easily set up. What makes...
Catholic to My Toes
Twelve years ago, dismayed at all the misunderstandings and hatefulness I was seeing among Catholics over the Presidential election, I decided to write a column about it for the East Tennessee Catholic. I thought I could dispel those misunderstandings and the...
NaBloPoMo and Countdown to Election Day!
It's November and you know what that means, right? No, not Election Day! 😉 It's time again for NaBloPoMo, when those of us who write blogs instead of books jump on the one-post-a-day bandwagon. I've had varying success with this in the past, and I don't know how...
October Is Respect Life Month
I decided recently to update and re-release some of my pro-life posts in honor of Respect Life Month. In order to make them easier for new readers to find, I'm including links to them here. I hope to continue to add to this page so that it will eventually contain one...
Sunglasses by LotFancy: A Review (SPONSORED)
So, I've been told by at least one reader that y'all don't like it when I post reviews. And I get that I've posted more reviews lately and less non-branded content. That's because when someone provides a product for me, I really have to follow through and tell you...
Fall Fun at Oakes Farm: SPONSORED
As y'all know by now, I'm a US Family Guide blogger, which means occasionally I share offers for admission to attractions with you, then visit the attractions and honestly review them in this space. In return, I get free tickets for me and my family. Today I am...
September 11: Remember the Love
Everyone who's old enough to remember has a 9/11 story. Mine is probably fairly typical of those of us with no personal connection to the events, and I've never written about it because it feels too much like trying to hop on the tragedy train in order to capitalize...
What Labor Day Means to Me
When I was a little girl, Labor Day meant watching Jerry Lewis, waiting to hear our names called out on the telethon for our donation. It meant fried chicken and deviled eggs and buttermilk ice cream at my cousins' house. Later it became the day that my cousin and I...
My Grandfather’s Chair
Growing up, I spent every Friday night at my grandparents' home, only a few blocks away from my own. And we were often in and out of their house during the week as well. Like as not, when I walked in, I'd find my grandfather sitting in the living room in his...
Adoramapix Offer (Sponsored)
Y'all may remember that not long ago I shared a review of some items I received from AdoramaPix. If you didn't read it, here's the summary: I loved them. Now I have another opportunity (because I'm a U.S. Family Guide Blogger) to sample another of their products and...
Contrite Catholic Giveaway
Y'all, isn't that just beautiful? The verse comes from one of my favorite passages in the Gospels, the one that ends: "Neither be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day." Isn't that a...
Blessed are the Merciful
I didn't write anything about how awful people were when the little boy fell into the gorilla enclosure. I didn't say anything about how quick people were to judge the poor parents whose child was killed by the alligator. What finally put me over the edge were the...
You Can Go with Kangeaux: SPONSORED
OK, y'all, so you know how much I love to hike. There's a new batch of trails in Knoxville's Urban Wilderness that Emily and I just started exploring yesterday, as a matter of fact (and more on those later!). Now as a US Family Guide blogger I am going to receive a...
Adorama Pix: SPONSORED Review
Y'all, I am late doing this review and I feel really bad about it, because I LOVE this service and these products and I will definitely be spending my own money here in the future. So, yeah, to get business out of the way, this IS a sponsored review, which means that...
The Easy Way to Clean Your Car: e-auto by e-cloth (SPONSORED Giveaway)
I got a new car a few months ago--new to me anyway! In our family, you generally don't get rid of a paid-for car until it is more expensive to keep fixing it than to give in and buy another one (or unless, of course, it gets burned in a fire.). John surprised me with...
SPONSORED Offer from AdoramaPix
So no sooner do I finish all those reviews do I see another offer from US Family Guide that I am so excited about that I am jumping right back on the reviewing treadmill. Check this out, y'all: Does that look cool, or what? Now, y'all know I like to take pictures....
Lovely Tidbits #2
You'd think I could manage to find a few minutes a week to join in this easy and fun linkup hosted by my friend Cristina or Handmaid Embroidery. <Sigh> How wrong you would be! I am finding it more and more difficult to carve out any time to do what I want...
SPONSORED: Bulu Box Review
Surprise, surprise! It's another sponsored review post from me. I know these disclosures can get boring, but ethics require I let you know that I received the following product for free in return for my honest review. This time I am going to write about my experience...
HOT Sponsored Review of Monthly Pepper Box
Back again with another review for US Family Guide. Monthly Pepper Box (to which I was given a three-month subscription in exchange for my honest review) is NOT a box full of pepper shakers or a box full of jalapenos and habaneros! Rather each box contains three...
Lovely Tidbits: A Look at My Week
Linking up today with my friend Christina of Handmaid Embroidery to give anyone who is interested a peek into what's going on around here this week! Going: Just returned from an awesome trip to Notre Dame to visit middle child (and middle son!) Teddy/Theo for Junior...
A History-Filled Afternoon at Lebanon in the Fork Presbyterian Cemetery
Wow, y'all. If you are interested in history you really need to visit Lebanon in the Forks Presbyterian Cemetery. Honestly, my visit left me a little awestruck. But let me back up. Emily and I went walking Saturday, as we are wont to do. We picked our destination...
A Club for Tea Lovers: SPONSORED
So maybe coffee is not for you. (I suppose people like that exist, hard as it might be for me to understand it!) Well, I had the opportunity to enjoy a free three month subscription to a club for tea lovers recently. My honest review follows. We actually drink a...
SPONSORED: Single Cup Club Review
Y'all, I overbooked myself in a big way in December, and now it's time to start paying the piper. As a blogger for US Family Guide, I accepted several free gifts in exchange for my honest review. Well, I've enjoyed the gifts, but it's long past time I reviewed them!...
50 Years: A Birthday Story
So I haven't blogged for a long time. Because birthdays. Most specifically, this year was my husband's 50th birthday, which he had been anticipating for some time. We had a special party, and I thought I would share some pictures of the big event. [gallery...
All I Want for Christmas Is Books, Books, Books
Even when I was a little girl who still enjoyed getting toys for Christmas, I also looked forward to receiving books. Then as a teenager I remember enjoying Christmas night, after all the festivities were finished, finally getting to lie on the sofa to read whichever...
SPONSORED: Coobie Bra Review
Awhile back I posted some info on Coobie Seamless Bras. As a blogger for US Family Guide I occasionally get free stuff in exchange for my honest opinion on said stuff. Usually my honest opinion ends up being more or less positive, but I'm not a fan of the Coobie Bra...
2015 in Review: Your Favorites, My Favorites
As I did last year, I'm going to do a little recap here, showcasing the five posts YOU, the readers, liked the most this year (according to my WordPress stats), as well as the five posts I, the writer, liked the most. Please feel free to check out any posts you...
12 in 2015: A Year in Pictures
At the end of 2013 and again last year I participated in a linkup in which participants shared one picture for each month of the year. I'm not sure that the linkup is taking place but I think it's a fun way to recap the year so I am going to do it anyway! January:...
That Time I Did Not Advent Right
Time to get real here, folks. All last week I posted about Advent: Advent memories, Advent crafts, Advent Workshops, complete with Pinterest-ready graphics. Yay me! But the truth is, I'm failing at Advent this year, and it's not the first time. I wanted to buy all...
Signs of the Season: An Advent Workshop
Since it first launched in 2001, my family has attended the Signs of the Season Advent Workshop at our parish every year--even when Lorelei was only ten days old! This annual event, founded and conducted by Dorothy Romines, has always been an integral part of our...
Tragedy and Traditions
The following was written in Advent 2011 and posted at my friend Lacy's blog. That first post-fire Christmas still seems very close and this time of year still is a little painful for me. Traditions. We all have them. Children demand them—“We did that last year—we...
Celebrating Advent with a Jesse Tree
When most people are getting excited about Christmas, I am usually getting excited about Advent. And outside of church, you don’t hear much about this special season, as people are so eager to rush straight into Christmas. When I was growing up my family always had...
Advent Memories
I’m a Catholic school veteran—16 years all told. I sent my three oldest children to the same parochial grade school I attended. Catholic schools have Religion class every day along with Math, English, and Social Studies, and that’s great—but what’s even better are...
