the glory of everything

I may be either maintaining two blogs with different foci (hoyti-toyti pluralization), or switching over to WordPress completely. I have not...

"The U.S. uses more electricity for air conditioning than Africa uses for  everything ." The quote comes from a Washington Pos...

In recent summers, we have traveled to Michigan for about a month to help my parents with a little pizza/ice cream/grocery on a lake up nort...

I have never been keen on the typical American sports fare of baseball, basketball, and football. I can get into football when necessary, bu...

It was a holy day of obligation today - All Saints' Day. So I took the kids to Liturgy at noon. It was one of those cases where you walk...

Warm blankets on cold mornings are lovely, but such cozy solitude can't last. Soon cries draw me up the stairs to the littles' room,...

I need some suggestions for books to read aloud to the kids. It seems my list, my memory, is heavily fantasy-science fiction, so I need some...

Somedays it seems as if Cate (3) and Noah (2) carry on an argument from the time they wake up until the time they go to bed, punctuated by p...

Asa is 3 1/2 months old now. He was such a scrawny thing when he was born - a little bag of bones. But he's fattened up beautifully. Occ...