Freedom and Self Help
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Thursday, November 19, 2009
A few years ago, a friend gave me a set of tapes that were instrumental in helping me deal with some major stress in my life. The tapes, called Detaching With Love: Principles of the Spiritual Life, (scroll down to see link) come from Fr. Emmerich Vogt, a priest active in giving practical and spiritual guidance based on the 12-step program.
In the tapes, Fr. Emmerich talks about the importance of... READ MORE
The IVF Rule
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Faith on Wednesday, August 19, 2009
I hadn’t thought about IVF in a long time, but this article over at the Register about Celine Dion’s latest pregnancy brought it back to my mind, and sent me back in time five years.
In the summer of 2004 it had been a year since Bryan and I had begun actively trying to conceive a child, and when that twelfth cycle brought us up short, I was devastated. Six months, eight months, ten months hadn’t... READ MORE
It Only Cost Him One Knee
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Tuesday, August 18, 2009
While I was away for a couple of days at the end of last week, 4-year-old Raphael worked hard on a milestone.
Dan removed the training wheels from his bicycle and he was determined to ride. Determined enough to withstand some falls. Many falls, actually.
He never even hesitated, Dan and the older boys told me later. He fell and got up and fell and got up and fell and got up.
I witnessed one of those... READ MORE
How Do You Celebrate?
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Family on Saturday, July 04, 2009
Rachel showed us her yummy ol’ flag.
We have family traditions and political traditions. On the nerdy side, we usually attend a potluck cook-out with other political philosophy grads who’ve ended up in official Washington.
It’s nice to see that policy wonks have families and eat hot dogs like everyone else.
But it bores the stuffing out of the kids, to be honest—it’s usually... READ MORE
A Day to Remember, In More Ways Than One
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Tuesday, May 26, 2009
On Memorial Day, we usually attend a parade and visit a cemetery to pray especially for the souls of our country’s service men and women who are buried there.
Yesterday, though, we managed to get the parade and cemetery visit all in one. Our small town had a parade complete with speeches, prayers, and a wreath laying ceremony at the center of town, at the town docks (on the lake), and at the cemetery.... READ MORE
Ever Feel Like An Afghan Cabbie?
Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Friday, April 24, 2009
As part of my research for an article on subsidiarity, would you please take part in an informal, unscientific poll for me?
Sound off in comments after reading what follows.
I am curious whether you agree or disagree with the experience described by an Afghani cabbie now living here in the U.S.
In conversation with The Anchoress while she was a passenger in his cab, he complained that America is... READ MORE
‘Am I Too Catholic?’
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Tuesday, April 14, 2009
A reader wrote me recently with this question (I’ve edited out some specifics):
“Am I too Catholic? Having never really lived a Catholic family life, I have been struggling to understand, live, and teach the Catholic faith in our little family.
Sometimes, I feel like I’m a fundamentalist in my beliefs because I am so very different from my friends and family. For example, Harry Potter (won’t let my... READ MORE
Do The Rules Still Apply?
Posted by Matthew Archbold in Family on Thursday, March 19, 2009
My neighbor’s father walked outside while my brothers and I played wiffle ball with his son.
Sometimes, on Sunday afternoons he’d come out with a beer in his hand, sit on the grass with a comic grunt, and announce our games in epic terms while impersonating the radio voices we all knew.
That day, he told us that two “hippies” ran out on centerfield in Dodger’s Stadium attempting to burn the American... READ MORE
Christmas Eve, 1919
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Wednesday, December 24, 2008
On Christmas Eve, 1919, several refugees from the Russian revolution kept Christmas in their hearts while hiding from Bolshevik soldiers.
“One woman and 16 men, including my father, decided they would try to get out another way. In the middle of a very snowy night, they skied through the Bolshevik lines toward Finland. As my father later told his five children, it was an arduous and long journey. They had so little food that at one point they were reduced to eating the beeswax candles they carried with them.
They soon ceased to count the days. Time became amorphous as they traveled through the chilling cold of an Arctic winter in the darkness of the deep woods. Their singular goal was to avoid Bolshevik patrols.
On one of those timeless, dark days, my father said, the woman in their group reminded the men of something they had all lost track of—tomorrow would be Christmas Eve.”
Read what happened next here. You won’t be sorry!
Page 1 of 1 pages
