by Leslie Sholly | Sep 9, 2022 | book review, books, linkups
August was NOT a reading month, y’all. Among other things (and aren’t there always other things?), Lorelei started her Senior year of high school, William started his fifth semester of college, and we moved my father across town. Lorelei now has a 7 a.m....
by Leslie Sholly | Nov 3, 2020 | Catholicism, Deep Thoughts, Politics
I love voting on Election Day, but wishing to leave nothing to chance in this crazy year, I took advantage of early voting last week. I marked my paper ballot for Joe Biden, coloring it in very carefully and staring at it for a long time afterward before I scanned...
by Leslie Sholly | Nov 15, 2019 | shopping
Now, I am not one to start Christmasing early. We celebrate Advent hard and save Christmas for its proper 12 days as much as possible in today’s world. But part of having a peaceful Advent for me is doing my Christmas shopping in November. If you want to get...
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 | Nov 1, 2019 | Catholicism
If you are busy like I am (and who isn’t busy these days), daily dedicated prayer time may seem out of reach. And yet we NEED daily prayer to help us cope with our overwhelming, stressful, too-busy lives. As Saint Francis de Sales famously said, “Every...