by Leslie Sholly | Aug 29, 2017 | Catholicism, Everyday Ediths, Uncategorized
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...
by Leslie Sholly | Jun 16, 2015 | rants
Most of us want to be liked, right? It’s human nature, isn’t it, to crave acceptance, to want to be part of a tribe? But worrying about whether people like you can be debilitating. And it’s downright unhealthy if you let your desire to be liked...
by Leslie Sholly | Nov 22, 2013 | Georgetown, Politics
Twenty-seven years ago (ACK!!), I moved into my first apartment at Georgetown with three classmates. It was like playing house–walking to Safeway to buy groceries, making Quick Corn Light Bread from my mother’s recipe, using the carpet sweeper, fighting...
by Leslie Sholly | Nov 4, 2012 | Deep Thoughts, FIRE, Uncategorized
“Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” I Thessalonians 5:18 I first encountered that quotation as a child when reading The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom. Corrie and her sister Betsie have been imprisoned in a...
by Leslie Sholly | May 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
The popularity of Facebook has made the concept of community-building via the internet commonplace. But for most of us, our Facebook friends are people we know in real life, even if we haven’t seen them in a long time or do not know them very well. The idea of...