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 […]

Dear Henry,   Happy birthday! Today you are one year old, and my heart is bursting with joy. I recently made the annual photo book to share with our family, and just now I finished the slideshow of the (not quite) day-by-day photos I took of your first year. I set it to “All I […]

A few weeks ago, I went to Dunkin Donuts (alternately referred to as “the shrine” in our household) with my sister-in-law Kathleen. She offered to buy me a doughnut, and I requested the pumpkin pie variety I’d seen in advertisements. Unfortunately, we arrived a few weeks too late for that. Instead, we split a festive […]