Adventure is out there! It is a Notre Dame School of Architecture tradition to wear a model on your graduation cap. For years I thought I’d wear a Disney castle on my cap. But then while I was in college, the movie Up came out, and for my thesis I designed a South American–themed hotel and… Read More A Few of My Favorite Things, #19: Up
I could listen to Audrey Assad’s music every single day and never get tired of it. And I do. I also play her songs on piano and flute all the time. I’m super excited for her hymns album, Inheritance, which will be coming out next year! Some of my current favorite Audrey songs: Lead Me… Read More A Few of My Favorite Things, #18: Audrey Assad
I first learned to ski when I was four years old. We used to take trips out to Snowmass, Colorado, every few years. I’d been to Snowmass twice before I was old enough to go to ski school.
While I was living in Rome, I made a list of churches I wanted to visit. I would take a walk by myself almost every day to visit a different church—I often revisited the ones in my neighborhood, and then on the weekends, when I had a little more time, I would wander farther away… Read More A Few of My Favorite Things, #16: San Giovanni della Pigna
One of my favorite series growing up was Little House on the Prairie. They sparked a love of historical fiction throughout my childhood—I read every book in the American Girl and Dear America series. But the Little House series was the first one I fell in love with, and I spent many afternoons pretending to travel across America… Read More A Few of My Favorite Things, #15: Little House Books
So, I have a minor addiction to Sporcle quizzes. (In case you are not familiar, Sporcle is website full of trivia quizzes that is especially dangerous when one is prone to procrastination.) I’m not quite as obsessed as I used to be—I don’t really have the time anymore—but I once gave up Sporcle for Lent, I… Read More A Few of My Favorite Things, #14: Sporcle
I did not grow up with video games, but I did play computer games—my all-time favorite game, which should come as no surprise given my love of Disney Imagineering, was Roller Coaster Tycoon. At some point when I in my early teens, we acquired a CD-ROM of old Atari games, and I quickly became addicted to… Read More A Few of My Favorite Things, #13: Centipede
A perk of growing up near New York City was that I got the chance to see several Broadway shows. I was also in the pit orchestra in high school for our school productions (I played flute and piccolo for West Side Story and Kiss Me, Kate), and while it involved many long hours of… Read More A Few of My Favorite Things, #12: Musicals
When I was fourteen years old, I purchased this book while on vacation at Walt Disney World: I had been a Disney fanatic from the time I was a toddler—I collected park maps, watched the free vacation planning videos for fun, and learned everything I could about the parks and the stories behind them. (Was I… Read More A Few of My Favorite Things, #11: Walt Disney Imagineering
A few years ago, on a day when I felt overwhelmed by stresses and tensions and discouraged by observing conflicts where resolution seemed impossible, I browsed through prayers on the Laudate app on my phone and landed on the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, which I had never really said before. I said it for the first time, and I found… Read More A Few of My Favorite Things, #10: The Chaplet of Divine Mercy
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