Typically, when I get ready for the day, I bring Chiara, who is 2 1/2 years old, into my bedroom and set her up on the bed with some books and toys. Today, ...
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OK, I know there’s a joke in there somewhere. But seriously, the New York Times reported yesterday that the 55.8 million-year-old fossil of a one-ounce ...
Word on the street -- or at least the streets of Boston -- is that my book was being sold ahead of schedule at Barnes & Noble. What? No security a la Harry ...
About 24 hours from now my new book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Catholic Catechism (Alpha/Penguin), will be available online and in stores. Up until now ...
I’ve been in the business of the Catholic press for a long time, so long that sometimes it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that I’m not just writing about any ...
I had my first-ever pedicure when I was in my early 40s. It was a Mother’s Day gift from Dennis and the kids and, although it was pleasant enough, I never went ...
If you could be any punctuation mark at all, what would you be? Well, it turns out that I am an exclamation point, just like my blog friend Julie D. over ...
Conversation at the family breakfast table this morning turned to adultery. Yes, that’s right, adultery. Imagine the days when kids were seen and not heard? ...
Dennis and I were lucky enough to spend the afternoon in Brooklyn today, celebrating the 100th anniversary of The Tablet, the weekly diocesan newspaper, but, ...
Well, we are just hours away from the official end of mid-winter vacation (I don’t count weekends), and I just have to say that this week had to be a monumental ...
I want to catch all my weekday-only visitors before the weekend sets in. If you have a Sirius Radio subscription, please tune in on Monday morning at 7:30 a.m., ...
I recently wrote an article on Lenten family traditions for Our Sunday Visitor, a national Catholic news weekly for whom I am a contributing editor. I thought ...
Well, the kids were painting again -- something they seem to do with frightening frequency, especially when you take into consideration that they are just feet ...
So we’re into our second week of Lent, and I have to admit that this has been a less-than-stellar outing for me so far. I’m doing fine with the fasting and ...
I’m the oldest child in my family, so I never really got the whole middle-child thing -- until I had Chiara almost three years ago and Olivia was pushed into ...
I came across the painting above -- Transfiguration by John Armstrong (1947) -- by accident, but as soon as I saw it, I knew that, for me, it expressed the ...
Today’s post is going to require a little work on your part. I want to hear back from you because otherwise my unofficial survey won’t be very official -- or ...
Today being St. Valentine’s Day and this being a somewhat spiritually focused blog, you’re probably thinking I’m going to talk about interfaith marriages. ...
Let me start by saying this: Crafts were made. Popsicle sticks were used. (If you didn’t read this morning’s post, you’re probably a little confused by ...
We’re having a snow day here in the upstate New York, and not even a really good snow day where you can go outside and build snow creatures and slide down ...