Every time I’ve thought about sitting down to write – which hasn’t been all that frequently, truth be told – I’ve been deterred by the most germane of happenings. An overly full diaper. A vacuum needing to…

This is incredibly dorky but…that has rarely stopped me from making many of the choices I’ve made in life. So here goes: I was reading one of my perennial favorites, Sancta Nomina, and I got to wondering…

Coming in hot on Spy Wednesday (tl;dr: round up “30 pieces of silver” to hide in various spots around the house and turn your kids loose for a survival of the fittest scramble to remember.) Or if…

Gosh you guys, I think the hardest thing about getting back into a regular blogging schedule is going to be the title crafting. Headlines have always been a real Achilles heel for me because gosh darn it…

Lent is upon us. It’s here. I’ve messed it up already by mindlessly popping handfuls of cashews and pumpkin seeds into my mouth at various times during this Ash Wednesday, so things can only improve from here.…

Soooooo, pretty chill to like, write on a super controversial topic and then go dark for a month…err, 5 weeks. I used to mourn my favorite bloggers as they would reach a critical mass of kids or…

Last night we spent a beautiful, and possibly illegal, evening with friends reminiscing about the passing away of 2020 and the dawn of the new year. Our host challenged each couple to take turns sharing what the…

I’m kind of embarrassed by the lameness of the title, but I’ve amassed a collection of helpful habits for myself over the years that have made Christmas more joyful and slightly less stressful. They’re not profound so…

I’ve recently finished Rod Dreher’s latest book, Live Not By Lies, a read I found deeply sobering and prescient. He had already written the bulk of it prior to covid, and so I read many of the…