I was nine when the world awaited the Y2K catastrophe. At the time, I didn’t see it as a catastrophe. I was excited! This was back when most people didn’t own cell phones and the Internet couldn’t be carried around in a pocket. Still, modern technology infused daily life and the idea of returning to […]

In our house, we watch very little TV or movies. At most, we watch one movie on some Sundays/special days. Since it is such a rarity, I like to make sure the movies we watch are really good! I obviously don’t want my children watching anything that is morally confusing or that teaches them bad […]

Babies rarely come when we expect them. This is obviously the case for pregnancies themselves, for miscarriages, for early or late natural births. But it’s true for each and every birth in all of history. Even out of my five scheduled births, only two actually happened at the scheduled time. Then, of course, there is […]

Crisis Magazine recently published an article addressing the common failure of Catholic men’s groups. I know exactly what the author is talking about— but it’s not just a problem with Catholic men’s groups. Despite the ways in which women may be more socially inclined, I have found that our “groups” often fail too. Single women […]

The palms we wave around like children, All children, Unable to resist the peeling and the bending and the twisting into crosses and crowns, And marveling at the funny fact of bringing giant leaves into Church— The palms we wave around like children Are later ground into the dirt that’s later rubbed upon our foreheads, […]