“‘Thomas! Thomas!’ two snickering friars called, rousing their brother who was bent over his books. ‘Look out the window—there are pigs flying about in the sky!’ Thomas rose at once and bounced to the window incredulously. The friars laughed. Putting the finishing touch on the jest, the saint responded, ‘I would rather believe that pigs can fly… Read More Over at Ignitum Today: Sheep Among Wolves
March is my favorite month: the simple, quiet joys of Lent, the hope of spring and thawing snow, St. Patrick’s Day, the Solemnities of St. Joseph and the Annunciation, and—of course—March Madness. Even though I’m dead last in my family bracket pool at the moment, I’m enjoying the games and the upsets. I didn’t pick Georgia State… Read More The most wonderful time of the year
Posting this because it’s one of my favorite prayers—St. Patrick was not only an incredible missionary but also clearly someone not to be messed with. Since I am almost entirely of Irish descent, I’m pretty grateful for the heritage he gave us and the brave resiliency he lived out in order to do so. Happy… Read More Lorica of St. Patrick
It is very appropriate, I think, that I received my diagnosis of wheat and milk allergies during Lent, three years ago. After all, I was already in a mode of Lenten sacrifice, and it felt good and natural to cut out these foods from my life and stick to a very basic diet. Also, I… Read More Over at Ignitum Today: Beyond My Comfort (Food) Zone
Lately I’ve been having conversations about Myers-Briggs personality types, which is a topic I find completely fascinating. I remembered a while back that Jen brought up the idea of a theme song for your personality type…she identified with “Surrender to Hope” by Trailerhead as an INTP, after reading Delena’s post, which suggested “Can’t Hold Us”… Read More INFP theme songs
Since last I posted: —I immediately lost my Metrocard again and couldn’t find it. —I woke up Saturday morning (my very last day without dental coverage) with an infected wisdom tooth. I then spent all day trying to find a dental urgent care that could see me, but they were all full. I ended up… Read More So much for that…
Linking up with Kelly. —1— You’ve probably heard that we had a blizzard here in New York this week. As a result, I had a half day of work on Monday and a snow day on Tuesday. Not bad. It’s been quite a while since I’ve had a snow day…the last time involved a lot… Read More 7 Quick Takes: Snow days, Disney music, and disasters averted
When I was three years old, I had a terrible case of the chicken pox. So terrible, in fact, that my spleen became enlarged, and doctors ran all sorts of tests to be sure I didn’t have leukemia. Fortunately, it really was just the chicken pox, and I recovered just fine. My sister had the… Read More Over at Ignitum Today: Spiritual Antibodies
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice. —St. Francis de Sales I am currently without wifi in my apartment, hence the silence here. That should be fixed soon enough. For some reason I’ve been thinking a lot of Orange lately; I think that in the midst of a New York January I have… Read More Everyday details
I moved into a new apartment yesterday. It’s a mess right now.
work in progress 