I was playing the time-honored classic with my four-month-old the other day. “Peek-a-boo!” His little giggle was making me giggle, and in...

For as long as I can remember, I have had an almost sinful hatred of blisters.  I mean, come on. Breaking in a new pair of shoes?...

My toddler was entertaining himself with blocks, and the baby was sleeping, so I seized the moment to try to get a few things done around...

Sometimes, I struggle to separate my childish views of events with my supposedly now mature, educated vision.  This sometimes happens...

I always cringe a little bit when the two greatest commandments are read aloud in Mass. I mean, if they’re the top two, I really gotta...

I don’t personally remember, thank goodness, but from the tales that my parents tell, sounds like I had pretty bad separation anxiety as...

My toddler recently started exclusively calling me “mommy.” We are unsure how he picked it up, but one day it switched from his previous...

I have a sixteen-month-old boy. A very mobile, abundantly active, and daringly fearless sixteen-month-old boy. To further paint the...

I was catching up on the fan-favorite "The Chosen" the other evening and it accomplished what it set out to do: it moved me to read-over...

Everyone has just knelt down at Sunday Mass. I make deliberate eye-contact with my husband in the pew. He nods. My heartbeat quickens and...

My husband and I just celebrated two years of Marriage. We have a beautiful 1 year-old. Life is good. We are by no means experts in the...

I sit down with a dear old friend over dinner, both of us unwinding internally and rewinding externally the stories we’ve missed from the...

Climbing a 14’er is absolutely insane. The challenge of summiting a 14,000 foot peak, or anything near or beyond that range, demands some...

I adeptly tucked my newborn into place at the back of the Church, cries of hunger easing along with my own stress levels, just in time...

The moment one of my priest friends told me to pay attention to what doesn’t make sense in Scripture, my prayer life was forever changed....

Sometimes the human condition makes me laugh. Sometimes it makes me cry. But sometimes you really have to take a step back and examine...

In the height of COVID, I ran a half-marathon. It wasn’t pretty. I didn’t make good time. I could barely move for a week after. And I...

As I approach my college graduation, more and more conversations have begun circling around this certain topic: What am I supposed to do...

I thought I was in a period of spiritual dryness. Prayer, for a while, had honestly just been kind of “eh.” Prayer was good in the sense...

With the Holidays rapidly approaching, and everyone’s Amazon shopping cart steadily filling to the brim, I have run into an annual and...