I'm not sure why it is, but I don't seem to have much to say lately. For awhile, I blamed it on the book I was writing, but now that...

Me: "Strange how I want raisins on my oatmeal now that I've given up sweets for Lent." Ramona: "Well, Mommy, they ar...

What we've been doing: * For  Ramona's book club  we just finished reading Marie McSwigan's  Snow Treasure . It was slow going...

"I feel that if I were not a Catholic I would have no reason to write, no reason to see, no reason ever to feel horrified or even to e...

Why, you ask? Before Lent began, Atticus mentioned (can't remember where he heard it -- something on NPR the other day?) that perha...

I love the way James Joyce summed up the Catholic Church: "Here comes everybody." At Ash Wednesday Mass last night, the churc...