DarwinCatholic

Canto 24 is taken up with the climb of the three poets from the terrace of greed to the terrace of lust, and an extended conversation they h...

Sleep For most of my child-raising career, I've never gotten up at a set time, and rarely before the kids wake up. I like being lazy in...

I've been feeling lately the lack of order in my life, from the stresses of homeschooling to the stresses of a messy house. How unorder...

Music first. This past weekend was our parish's ministry fair, in which all the ministries set up tables in the parish hall and try to c...

I liked his acting in Three Kings. I liked his directing in Being John Malkovich and Adaptation. But watching the trailer for Spike Jonze...

Thanks as always to Jen for hosting . 1. The light posting this week was partially due to the wave of sickness that swept the house. Darwi...

You can tell that I've got to used to thinking in economic terms when my three daughters are sitting in a row watching the Disney Sleepi...

I'd happily listen to someone with a British accent read the phone book, but it's even better when the speaker is an articulate poli...

Jen finds that the accountability of confessing her sins to a priest compels her to make restitution: As I recently discovered, evil always ...

Sometimes even the subtle revenge of quiet misbehavior is not enough to overcome one's feeling of ill use.

As the government continues to pump money into AIG, the foundering insurance giant which found itself at the center of the real estate and f...

Truer words: "Parents are not interested in justice, just quiet!" -- Bill Cosby The quote is at 1:35. This is particularly appropr...

Here's a little phrase guaranteed to make even the most contentious siblings play peacefully together while creating long involved games...

Alright, Internets: anyone have any advice on what to do for a six-month-old with a cold? I've never had one get sick this early, and I...

As I wrestle in my mind with whether St. Patrick's day is sufficient cause to take a day off my alcohol fast, it seems a reasonable enou...

While Americans weather layoffs and watch their 401ks dwindle, the developing nations in which many of our products originate are being hit ...

Darwin has up a post on "babe violinists" over at American Catholic . Well, this guy isn't a babe violinist, but I love this ...

Another Catholic blogger, a fellow by the name of Murray, is doing a start-to-finish blog-through of Dante's Purgatorio for Lent this ye...

So Lent is just about at the halfway mark, and I was sitting back and congratulating myself. "I'm not doing too badly," I tho...

Darwin's Lenten series on Purgatorio , and my own reading of Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life , brought to mi...