When a Blessing Becomes an Idol
I was talking with my new friend just the other day… She and I hit it off right away, because we’re Catholic mothers of relatively small families. I’ve mentioned only have one daughter so far; by God’s...
View ArticleSomething To Be Thankful For
We were spending Thanksgiving, as we often did, with family– not my bad cousins, who might have been fun, but my father’s side of the family: my eccentric uncle and aunt, a well-to-do attorney and his...
View ArticleBubbles are Trouble
I grew up in a bubble. Earlier this week, in his review of The Benedict Option, my friend Sam mentioned a bit about the bubbles he grew up in; my friend Justin mentions the Evangelical Bubble in one...
View ArticleTwo Mothers
For awhile, we were in a parish with two rival homeschool groups. One was led by a well-dressed rich lady with mile-high hair and astonishingly unruly children; the other was led by my mother and her...
View ArticleBack to School for the Very First Time
We finished our first year of homeschooling. I’ve been meaning to tell you guys about homeschooling for weeks, but August was a busy month for news and I never got the chance. Rosie completed her...
View ArticleFirst Things and The Pro-Life Movement’s Shocking Double Standard
When I was a teenager, I was homeschooled in a deeply conservative, deeply pro-life homeschool group. Everyone had as many children as they could. I used to watch the parade of sixteen-passenger vans...
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