Danielle Bean: “Are We A Pro-Life People?”

Danielle Bean has an excellent article over at Inside Catholic that I so needed today. I read this and I started to cry: When a battle-weary mother stands alone in her bathroom looking with disbelief at two tiny pink lines on a pregnancy test, it’s too late for family-planning discussions of clinical effectiveness. We’ve got… Continue reading Danielle Bean: “Are We A Pro-Life People?”

Karen Marie Knapp…

…of happy memory, entered eternal life a little over a year ago (August 1, to be exact.) May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

One-word meme

via dylan 1. Where is your cell phone? Purse 2. Your significant other? upstairs sleeping 3. Your hair? scalp 4. Your mother? much too far away. 5. Your father? just far enough away 6. Your favorite thing? a really good story 7. Your dream last night? forget. 8. Your favorite drink? coffee. 9. Your dream/goal?… Continue reading One-word meme

If That is Funny, Why Aren’t I Laughing?

On the 4th of July, I was at a get together at a girlfriend’s house along with some of her extended family. I was having a conversation with her where we were talking about one of our recent fun adventures of the flu going through the house, and our jobs as mothers to clean up,… Continue reading If That is Funny, Why Aren’t I Laughing?

Pro-Life Moms of “Advanced Maternal Age”

I had my prenatal visit the other day and the PA mentioned that at 18 weeks, if I so choose, I could get genetic counseling, a level II ultrasound, and perhaps an amnio to look for birth defects-specifically Down Syndrome. I am now 35, therefore officially of “advanced maternal age” making the chances of having… Continue reading Pro-Life Moms of “Advanced Maternal Age”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918-2008

Solzhenitzyn’s Templeton Address: “Men Have Forgotten God” WWWTW reprints his frighteningly prescient 1978 Harvard Address: It is not possible that assessment of the President’s performance be reduced to the question of how much money one makes or of unlimited availability of gasoline. Only voluntary, inspired self-restraint can raise man above the world stream of materialism.