by Leslie Sholly | Oct 24, 2017 | Catholicism, Deep Thoughts, family, Life Issues, linkups, Parenting
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...
by Leslie Sholly | Jul 13, 2017 | Catholicism, Deep Thoughts, Everyday Ediths
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...
by Leslie Sholly | Jul 10, 2017 | Babies, Deep Thoughts, family, Parenting
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...
by Leslie Sholly | Jun 29, 2017 | Catholicism, Deep Thoughts, Everyday Ediths, Uncategorized
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...
by Leslie Sholly | May 30, 2017 | Catholicism, death, Deep Thoughts, Everyday Ediths, family, Uncategorized
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...
by Leslie Sholly | Apr 25, 2017 | Catholicism, Deep Thoughts, Everyday Ediths
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....