A Bit of Daybooking

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Outside my window: It’s dark, because it’s night. Waaaaay past my bedtime, in fact. Usually I have a “no computer” rule after dinner, but that’s been sliding in the last few months and today’s been full. I just finished this great book and I can’t wind down just yet, so here I am. Around the [...]

Saturday Fun

Are you a fan of resolutions? I usually am, and I’m talking resolutions in my latest column at CatholicMom.com: To Resolve or Not to Resolve. Intercessory Prayer: A Must-Read What Would You Like Me to Pray For? Pat Gohn inspires and challenges me yet again. Here’s an excerpt: The interior logic of intercession leads to [...]

Mama’s Voice

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Part of the Mary Moment Monday series I hear the bathroom door open, followed by the sound of a baby wailing. “Work your magic, Mama,” my husband says. He sounds pretty calm, but I remember when he first did this, six years ago, with our oldest daughter. I was taking my first shower in 36 [...]

Quick Takes from Chaos

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1. Introducing a “Mary Minute with Chesterton” I have been listening to Uncommon Sense, the podcast of the American Chesterton Society, since it started. I blame the hostess, Nancy Brown, for fanning the flame of interest I already had in G.K. Chesterton with her insightful commentary and interesting interviews. The latest episode, #40, features my [...]

Non-Resolutions

My latest column at CatholicMom.com, “Failed Resolutions,” is more serious than what I’m sharing here today, which is a list updated from a post I did back on the brink of 2008. Subtitled “Things You Won’t Hear Me Saying This Year” “Coffee? Never drink the stuff.” “Um, no, we don’t have any Chips Ahoy or [...]

Gearing Up for Another Year

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Source The last week of the year always does something to me. My to-do list, already full of things that need done, is suddenly bursting with exciting beginning-of-year tasks: get the new planner rolling, update the finance folders, clear off the desk and put away this year’s stuff. It’s still Christmas, and the kids wake [...]

Finding Peace This Year

I started thinking about a one word resolution for the year when I read Rachel Balducci’s recent post at Faith & Family Live, and then, hearing Lisa Hendey and Rachel talk more about it in this week’s Faith & Family Livecast, I found myself suddenly sure that this was something I needed to do. I [...]

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