Apples and Roses

I came to the "Tim Gordon on Married Women Working" controversy a year after it happened, and I hope this post does not rekindle t...

Today is the tenth wedding anniversary of Benedict Ambrose and me, and thus ten years since I stopped being "Seraphic Single." ...

I went out for dinner with my littlest brother! :-D Okay, I am married so it's not the same thing as not having a sweetheart on Valent...

I read this Atlantic piece with amusement. It concerns a study into a correlation between money and happiness, and the researcher became qu...

"Normally the patient sits in that seat," said the doctor, or words to that effect, to me. Yes, Benedict Ambrose and I were ba...

Memoir can be a face-squinchingly embarrassing practice. One runs the risk of looking pathetic and banal. However, human beings are--let us ...

So now it is a year since the morning I prayed all 15 decades of the Rosary on the one-hour commute to my husband's hospital the day aft...

It's the first anniversary of my husband's incredibly dangerous fifth brain surgery . Naturally Benedict Ambrose remembers nothing o...

Today I was terribly sad and homesick, and it was through gritted teeth that I asked myself what I could do today to make tomorrow better. O...

Reader Booklover has asked how to have Catholic female friendships after thirty when all the Catholic females around have kids and you don...

Benedict Ambrose and I share the same core values (very important in marriage), but we have very different personalities. This can cause fri...

Benedict Ambrose had a day off work yesterday, and when a friend agreed to store some boxes of books for us, B.A. went to the Historical Hou...

Today I went to the Historical House and filled boxes with books.  When I first started this gargantuan task, I decided to start with books ...