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? Â It’s human nature, isn’t it, to crave acceptance, to want to be part of a tribe? Â But worrying about whether people like you can be debilitating. Â 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. Â 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...