DarwinCatholic

I've had the happy experience this week of becoming a proud auntie not once, but twice over, to a fine niece in New Jersey, and a fine ...

We all had a summer cold last week. While the kids took it easy and vegged out in front of The Great British Baking Show, I took the opportu...

Over the weekend MrsDarwin and I had a chance to catch the Wonder Woman movie, which the eldest three children had already watched and enjo...

Last Saturday evening we were running all over the house, straightening up for a Pentecost potluck. People were yelling at each other, tripp...

I was reading this old Atlantic piece by WW2 army combat historian S. L. A. Marshall, in which he recounts the fates of several of the ha...

To all who made recommendations for treating poison ivy, my grateful thanks. I'm sorry to report that the Zanfel didn't do anything ...

As we wrap up a year of family German classes (fulfilling foreign language requirements for the old kids and providing a chance to for me to...

8:30 am, Friday. Summer. One child in the bedroom, on the laptop, with earphones on, after bellowing, "Get out!" at siblings. ...

We've been writing this blog for twelve years (the first post was June 8th, but I'm lousy at remembering any anniversaries other tha...

No, we have not dropped off the face of the earth. But we've mostly finished with schoolwork, and we had a long weekend, and... oh, just...

MrsDarwin and I got a chance to go see Guardians of the Galaxy on Mothers Day afternoon. In what increasingly seems our standard model for ...

Ian McEwan's celebrated novel Atonement tells the story of a young girl named Briony Tallis who, fancying herself a writer and jumping t...

Looking back through the blog archives, I see that I chronicled the 2011 bout of poison ivy, and the 2012 one, but not the 2015 round that l...

Sure, you could go see Guardians of the Galaxy this week if you need laughs and drama, but it's going to be a lot cheaper to come to m...

Tossed off in the moments before we have to leave for the dance recital rehearsal. 1. Need to feel good about your weight? Find out how ma...

We return to Natalie in a field hospital on the Eastern Front. The installment is a bit longer than usual (which in part explains why it to...

We had a lovely day for a lovely girl's confirmation. Julia Thérèse Josephine Bakhita Three lovely big girls. Julia and he...

Today Julia, age 13, will be confirmed. She's taking Josephine Bakhita for her confirmation saint.  Julia first heard about St. Jo...