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  • Christina Mamaril on Chasing Beauty

    When I first got on Instagram, a friend dutifully warned me that it was the place for shallow people, mostly celebrities and celebrity-wannabes, social climbers, those with a materialistic bent. So I tread carefully for a while, until one day,… Continue reading

  • Christ’s Teachings Are the Vegetables Of Our Lives

    Image: Toa Heftiba One of the reasons I love cooking so much is that it’s often meditative for me. Peeling, chopping, mincing, crushing, tearing, and sometimes tearing up (those blasted onions)…. The work can get tedious, but I have my best… Continue reading

  • What Rocks a Marriage and What Makes a Marriage Rock

    By May A Image: Zelle Duda The Survey of Marital Generosity (www.stateofourunions.org) was published in 2011 and was a summary of almost 2,000 couples’ response on what makes a marriage very happy and what makes a marriage strong (i.e. not prone… Continue reading

  • How to DIY Your Child’s Homeschooling Curriculum Part 2: BOOKS!

    Image: Thought Catalog In Part 1, I talked about “my process” for designing my child’s homeschooling curriculum. Because we’ve been homeschooling for roughly 18 years now, my go-to resources will look a little different from a new homeschooler’s, so if you’re… Continue reading

  • Nadine Lustre, Cohabitation, and the Demand for Approval

    Image: Alex Robert First of all, YES. Nadine Lustre and James Reid are adults and they can make their own decisions. But they are also public figures. Miss Lustre is a celebrity looked up to by millions of adoring young girls.… Continue reading

  • Why Read the Old Testament?

    Image: Josh Applegate A recent discussion with a loved one set me thinking. He asks, why read the Old Testament? It’s supposedly filled with confusing passages, lots of violence, not much that could be applied to daily life, unlike the… Continue reading

  • Ten Reasons to Leave Facebook in 2017

    Image: Wikimedia Commons Just to be clear right off the bat, I’m not leaving Facebook, not yet anyway. I’ve finally found a good balance between being on Facebook and fasting from it on a regular basis; I fast every few… Continue reading

  • This Is Your Marriage On Social Media

    Image: Josh Applegate I wish I were clever and resourceful enough to come up with a commercial similar to the one below, to illustrate how we treat marriage on social media. We do not realize just how serious a responsibility… Continue reading

  • Birthing A (Firstborn) Adult

    Image: Caroline Hernandez Despite maintaining a fairly public profile, I don’t like writing about personal stuff, especially about current issues that we are dealing with in our family, because I do believe some things are just meant to be private… Continue reading

  • Considering Beauty in 2017

    Today marks the end of National Woman’s Month. For the past 30 days I’ve been musing about what being a Catholic woman means in 2017, and my wanderings led me… to beauty. I found it rather striking that all three… Continue reading