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You’re Going to Want to Get on This, Pronto

It’s that time of year again. Can you believe how close we are to the holidays? Has this year been as crazy busy for you as it has been for me? It feels like Christmas is going to be here before we know it, and Advent will come and go in the blink of an […]

November 18, 2019

Faith, Modern Perspectives, Motherhood

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Rome Sweet Home—A Giveaway!

This year, my home parish offered everyone a little gift at Christmastime—one that we were not to keep for ourselves, and one that, this week, I’m extending to you.   In light of the call to a New Evangelization, our church set out a ton of copies of a fantastic book about a Protestant couple’s […]

January 13, 2014

Faith, Modern Perspectives, Young Married Mom

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Dear Ethan V

Dear Ethan,   Sunday is the two-year anniversary of losing you. Two weeks later is the two-year anniversary of finding out we’d lost you.   The last couple weeks have been full of celebration around our house—first Henry’s birthday and aunts and uncles coming home, then Christmas, and last night, New Year’s Eve. Sometimes the […]

January 1, 2014

Faith, Modern Perspectives, Motherhood, Young Married Mom

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