I have something super fun to share with you guys later today, but for now I'm running out the door with children hanging off my literal...

When we’re wrestling our small child army into the pew at mass on Sunday mornings, I usually try to pick an outside spot on the center aisle...

I've always prided myself on extreme self-reliance. An almost pathological self-reliance, truth be told. Chalk it up to a mixture of fir...

Yesterday I was absolutely fried by 5 pm.  When Dave got home from work I flung the kids and the keys at him and begged that he take them t...

We had lived in Rome all of 3 weeks when Pope Benedict announced his intention to abdicate the papacy, setting in motion a frenzy of event...