When I worked in CubicleLand,* I scoffed at my colleagues who used such terms as “shopping therapy” or “shoe addiction”.   Even in my Vogue-reading  college days, I was known for having few (but interesting) shoes and purses. My college pals still...

This past week was the first week of Advent, and thus the first stage of decorating for the occasion. While I was putting up the Nativity (or nacimientos), the bag holding the Magi slipped out of the box.  Even as it fell, I was thinking,  No...

The Curt Jester posted excerpts of an article about many nuns’ refusal to cooperate with a three-year study by the Vatican. Among other things, the study is concerned with the decline of vocations. One of the commenters got my goat by writing, “I’d...

We are Orthodox, Catholic, and evangelical Christians who have united at this hour to reaffirm fundamental truths about justice and the common good, and to call upon our fellow citizens, believers and non-believers alike, to join us in defending them....

I made a special trip to a dollar store to find “window clings” – in this case, plastic snowflakes for the sliding glass door. I don’t particularly like the looks of them, but I didn’t want another bird to smack itself silly. I was on the phone in the...