My Answer to Amy Chua

So yeah, I am humbly grateful (very grateful!)  for driven high achievers who help make the world run better and life go more smoothly for all of us, but the bottom line underscoring it all and framing a whole other, very different set of  priorities in childrearing and just living, period,  is that this homeless [...]

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Living Water

St. Mary of the Pines Retreat Center, Chatawah, MS.

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Okay then..

…Mr. Sammons…I guess I should blog more to deserve my spot? Long time readers know that when I am scarcely blogging there’s usually one of two reasons: 1) I am finishing a project and am up against a wall, with not even a moment of procrastination time remaining or 2) I’m planning a trip and [...]

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Bottom line

Thanks to a reader who wrote and asked me where she could find this image – a permanent fixture on the sidebar of In Between Naps. I dug it up and remembered how much I liked it. So here it is, still pertinent. Pertinent not just for our thinking and behavior toward the defenseless unborn, [...]

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Communion of Saints, Everywhere

St. Rose Academy, Birmingham ,AL

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Can’t argue with that

…those kids have been doing the Friday dance for  a while… (-Dorian) Yeah, so blessed O Antiphons, Happy Christmas, Ecstatic Octave of Christmas, Happy New Year and a light-filled Epiphany to you all. Our house has been invaded by illness. I was the only one who escaped unscathed.  My oldest son, who has ended up [...]

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