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  • The Angelus in Poetry, Art, and Prayer

    Recently in doing some research for the young adult novel I’m working on, I stumbled across a quote from Van Gogh: “There is peace even in the storm” The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh The quote didn’t exactly square with… Continue reading

    The Angelus in Poetry, Art, and Prayer

  • Resources for Drawing Comic Superheroes

    We were just at Michaels to pick up stuff for Nino’s sacramental preparation portfolio (will blog that at a later date) and he found a book on how to draw comics, except it wasn’t on sale, and the “50% off… Continue reading

  • A Marian Study for May

    Note: This is a work-in-progress. 🙂 This is our rough outline for a Marian study we’re doing in May, covering art, geography, religion, history and the liturgical year. It’s a combination of ideas culled from the Blessed Mother Notebook Project… Continue reading

  • Combating Egocentrism: Deep Conversion, Deep Prayer

    One way to combat egocentrism… is to focus on everything that God has made and done for us. Because it’s all His. Our time, our talent, our visions, our gifts, our children, they’re all “ours”, but borrowed, for a while.… Continue reading

  • Scripture, Beauty, Art, Chesterton: Deep Conversion, Deep Prayer

    Today’s reading was a bit WOW for me, I’m kinda left speechless, so I’m limiting my “response reflection” to music and art. Here’s where I “journeyed” today…. some of my favorite Scripture verses. I thought it would be interesting to… Continue reading

  • I Got Owned. Or Two Points in Two Days.

    If you want an explanation of the title, ask my kids. I don’t know exactly what that means. Except my 18-yo kept saying, “Mom, you got owned.” Whatever. (Am I allowed to say that at 41?) My 13-year-old is amazing.… Continue reading