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Merry Christmas to all our readers! If you haven’t encountered the Nativity Sermon of St. John Chrysostom, we hope you will take some time in these coming days to read and reflect on the timeless words of the golden-mouthed preacher. Christ is Born! Glorify Him! BEHOLD a new and wondrous mystery. My ears resound to … Read more

In Which I Share Thoughts Sparked by Christmas Lights

A Chatty Inspiration Post

A new perspective

Wherein I remind myself to put first things first.

A Giving and Receiving Post

Patterns for Life Audiobook, chapter 14

Self-explanatory

Written for the Sunday of the Holy Cross, 2025.

The biggest secret of motherhood is that the labor pains never stop. Not everything you read on the mommy-blogosphere sticks, but this one has pestered me for almost twenty years. I read it for the first time in the early days of nursing my oldest, only a few months after a difficult birth experience. Frankly, … Read more