Simple, lovely, and simply lovely: to my dearest women friends, a relationship like no other.  In the Company of Women by January Gill O’Nei...

Various Facebook and Instagram moments from the last month or so: Ramona and I made a TARDIS.  Thanks, My Froggy Stuff !  ~~~~~...

This week's poem comes to you courtesy of an actual Facebook exchange with a friend this week.  Happy Poetry Friday!  Hospi...

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

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...

Recently, I accidentally referred to Trader Joe's Two-Buck Chuck/Charles Shaw wine as "Charles Schulz wine."  A friend th...

My chat with Haley and Christy is up on the  Fountains of Carrots podcast  page. (It's actually been up since last Tuesday, but I,...

Just about a month before my deadline for Through the Year With Mary , on the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, I still needed about 16 quote...

While Atticus and the girls were out of town, I took the opportunity to clean out a couple of files and storage boxes, which led me to sort...

A friend is moving again. My girls will get to spend a couple of days with S. before she moves across the country. She first moved away a fe...

How quickly they forget. I'm talking about two-year-olds, yes. They want everything they see, everything everyone else has, and they...

Speaking of likable people, here are two more: Ramona said to me the other day, as she was rereading Down to the Bonny Glen , "Mommy,...

  I am extremely fond of this poem for a few reasons. The first is that this is exactly the way  I give directions. Instead of providing st...

We laughed out loud . But, in all honesty, we think he looks much more like an irresistably huggable bear .

Jack has been my best friend since high school. He doesn't have a blog.  He didn't write any of this down.  He didn't know he ...

Softball is done! Betsy's team almost won the championship last night, but the opposition squeaked by in the end, 14-13. I'm proud...

One of Anne-with-an-e's best friends visited us for the Harry Potter event and between the midnight movie Tuesday and a late showing (in...

First of all, thanks to all of you who chimed in on the Mommy/Daughter Date article over at Faith and Family Live. Such fun comments! And ...

Yesterday I was cleaning out some old files, and found some articles about homeschooling that I'd saved many years ago. Tucked in among ...

You know her . You love her . Now you love her newest baby . Could this little guy be more gorgeous? You know, Minnesota Margaret and I shar...