Today I'm sharing a new book that perhaps isn't poetry in the strictest sense but is without a doubt poetic in every sense.  Portrai...

Saturday night we would have gone to Mass, as per usual. Then, on Sunday, we would have been on the road to see Dear Evan Hansen, which my g...

About this time last year, I said I wanted to up my Goodreads game . I joined Goodreads eons ago, then never used it. I'm still not...

I first posted this over a year ago , but it feels more fitting than ever today, so I'm sharing it again. ~~~~~ It's an ugly w...

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. Atticus and I, the couple who married with the firm belief we'd never want child...

Last night I told my sister a story she'd never heard before. We were talking about the ways God sometimes seems to drop someone into yo...

So, I recently finished A Canticle for Leibowitz . I can't believe it took me this long to read it (30-some years? When did you fir...

...to talk about her new (free!) ebook, The Our Father, Word by Word .  A few years ago, Jen put together a series for her blog in ...

I'll be talking with Glen on Relevant Radio's Morning Air at 8 a.m. central this morning. We're going to talk about incorpor...

Sometimes in conversations with stay-at-home, homeschooling moms the topic of education comes up. Not our children's, but  our educa...

Haley Stewart and Christy Isinger's  Fountains of Carrots  podcast is one of my favorites. Haley ( Carrots for Michaelmas ) and C...

Monday's webinar with Our Sunday Visitor  went beautifully, thanks to Tracy Stewart (on whom I have officially bestowed the title, ...

“As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.”  ~  George MacDonald (Photo thanks...

ImageChef.com Earlier this month, my friend Tamara pointed me to Britt Echtenkamp's "What You Should Give Up for Lent, Based ...

Photo courtesy of Free Images   Every year, it's the same thing: "What am I going to do for forty days?" One year I wr...

It's a genuine privilege to be part of Our Sunday Visitor's  blog tour for a new book from my friend, María Ruiz Scaperlanda . Here ...

Danielle Bean has a new podcast! And I got to be a part of it! I'm excited for her, excited for you to listen, and I was excited f...

Awhile back, I was talking with my editor at Our Sunday Visitor about book ideas. "I'd love to write about the process of conv...

When I first started blogging, my daughters were 3, 9, and 12, so when I wrote about Advent (as I did in the No-Panic Advent series ), I...

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Month and I'm thinking about the babies Atticus and I lost through miscarriage. F...