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There is no time for a long post today or likely any day this week- much going on at work and there is more work to do this evening as soon as I’m done writing this entry. It’s been a string of days and I’m just tired. Over the weekend Midi had two friends over […]
A week and a half ago, I saw a post in the Catholic Converts group on Facebook asking if anyone would like to join an online study group for St. Teresa of Avila’s The Interior Castle, specifically the Study Edition. I meant to reply and express interest, but that was when I was in the […]
Today has been eventful in many ways. Mass was very prayerful- before, during, and after. Sometimes it’s just like that, especially on days when we pray the rosary before Mass starts. After Mass, we had Symbolon faith formation. It was wonderful to spend time learning and talking with everyone. So I spent the first half […]
If you’ve read the previous post I made about Bertie the Duck, you may remember that she is not a wild duck. She’s a fat, top-heavy, domestic duck. As such, Bertie is not built for flying. This fact however does not stop her from exercising her wings and taking the occasional short flight. She rarely […]
Today is the feast day of St. Teresa of Avila. In honor of her, I decided to try to make a Spanish dessert named after her: Yemas de Santa Teresa. These little confections are mostly egg yolk which are very dear right now as the chickens are down to laying one or two eggs a […]
A few months ago, I went through and put all the Holy Days of Obligation and feast days for some of my favorite saints for the rest of the year into my Outlook calendar and requested them off. Then, I asked Stuart if he’d like to go hiking for St. Francis of Assisi’s feast day […]
I have been interested in herbal medicine since I was a teenager and Stuart took several ethnobotany courses in college including Northwest Indiana Native Uses of Plants where he learned what the indigenous peoples of the region used many different native plants for. The course was also practical and taught techniques for making salves, poultices, […]
I’m reading “Let Nothing Disturb You: 30 Days with Teresa of Avila” by Ave Maria Press. I bought the book a while ago, but I haven’t been able to stick to reading the entries for each day throughout the day. This feels like a good time to try though. Each day consists of a reading […]
I’ve written poems for as long as I can remember but it wasn’t until college that I began to examine my process and learn strategies for writing when the words and images didn’t come easily. I thought it would be fun to adapt one of the exercises I learned to include prayer and focus on […]
My Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir by Colleen Carrol Campbell deals with the author’s struggle with infertility and her father’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease. I snagged the book at a thrift store and read it in a day or so. From the book jacket: Dissatisfied with pat answers offered by both secular feminists and […]
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