by Leslie Sholly | Nov 7, 2019 | Catholicism, family, photoblogging, Vacations
Knoxville (my hometown) is four hours away from Cincinnati. I’ve always heard people saying what a great place Cincinnati is. But I never did more than drive through (and that not often) until Labor Day weekend two years ago. We had a particular reason for...
by Leslie Sholly | Nov 2, 2019 | Catholicism, death, Graveyards, Knoxville, photoblogging
Catholics are especially called to pray for the dead on All Souls Day. We are encouraged to visit a cemetery to do so if possible. So to commemorate this day, I am giving my readers a virtual visit to a graveyard. I was delivering a meal to a new mother two years...
by Leslie Sholly | Aug 12, 2019 | Babies, Catholicism, family, Knoxville, marriage, Notre Dame, Parenting, photoblogging, Spring Hill, teenagers, Vacations
John and I were married thirty years ago today, at 12:30 p.m. to be precise. To celebrate our anniversary and to reflect on what all those years have meant, I am sharing one picture from each year, with commentary. August 12, 1989, as we emerged from Immaculate...
by Leslie Sholly | Jan 12, 2019 | family, Knoxville, linkups, photoblogging
I love taking pictures, and I love this self-indulgent exercise of sharing my best photos of 2018. Or maybe not the best, but the most representative–it kind of depends on the month, really. JANUARY: A bonfire in our backyard–this one was for the burning...
by Leslie Sholly | Jun 16, 2018 | family, home decor, Knoxville, Parenting, photoblogging, teenagers, Vacations, Walking in Knoxville
I’ll be honest–it’s getting harder to come up with something to do every day, and now I am laboring under Lorelei and William’s expectations as well. It’s not that I don’t have plenty of ideas–I have a page-long list, in...
by Leslie Sholly | Feb 15, 2018 | Catholicism, Deep Thoughts, photoblogging
Last year for Lent I participated in an online book club via WINE (Women in the New Evangelization) in which we read and discussed Walk in Her Sandals. Our facilitator (Allison Gingras of Reconciled to You) came up with the fun Instagram challenge below. At first I...