Apples and Roses

Benedict Ambrose and I have been worried about our local Latin American restaurant. It has excellent steaks at affordable prices and dulce d...

Yesterday was the feast day of St. Joseph. I made traditional Italian zeppole di San Giuseppe before getting down to work. I began work earl...

I have a bad cold, so here I am at home instead of going from one gym class to the next. As I don't feel like moving from this chair, I ...

A doctor has poked my tick bite and made a cheerful prognosis, so I will not worry for now and meanwhile just put her prescribed cream on my...

Watching Notre Dame de Paris burn down over my computer was not at all like watching the Twin Towers fall across library television screens ...

Once I was a mighty blogger... Oh well! Devoted readers will have divined that I am very, very, very busy with a series of news article fo...

This was first published in the Toronto Catholic Register  in 2012 . I was looking for it today. As cynical politicians and others depend o...

I have been in bed with either the flu or food poisoning for two days. Too wretched for most of Monday to do anything but sleep or  stare at...

After Mass today a parishioner mentioned that I had written many articles for LSN this week, which surprised him. He thought that perhaps ...

It's Advent, so I am in the mood for purple. I have ordered a purple tablecloth and purple candles. I have even recoloured my blog, as y...

Polish Pretend Son loves the Traditional Mass so much, he hopes this video of his and Polish Pretend Daughter-in-Law's wedding helps to ...

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...

I have a new technique against useless retrospection. Every time I begin a thought with "Oh, if only..." or "I wish I had......

Today was a busy day: laundry, going out for a walk with B.A., preparing a reception-and-confirmation party for a Catholic friend's sudd...