Are We There Yet?

One thing all parents know:  Boredom + Being Together Too Much = Bickering.  No question about it, where two or more people  (no matter ...

(Wisdom of Mary Flannery O'Connor)

Doesn't matter how old you are or if you're a boy or girl -- there's fun to be had on a pedicure night.   No, really!  Chec...

Huh? Cathy (13), of course.  The Almond Artist. * Not a pastime advised for small or clumsy fingers.... Here is a safer projec...

                            Hymn of St. Dominic T hou who, hero-like, hast striven For the cause of God and heaven! Dominic, whose life...

I was in Kindergarten when my next door neighbor taught me my first hand clap game.  It was Say, Say, O Playmate.   The standard in hand cla...

So what if you're sick of playing in the pool?  Maybe it's just too hot to walk barefoot across the patio to get in it (which it r...

When you live in Vegas, where the thermometer hits 100 degrees almost every day -- and you have a postage-stamp-size yard and very little mo...

Whenever I see something so whimsically unlikely,  I assume that there was a Guardian Angel of a good little child  with time on hi...

You may know that St. Ignatius is the great founder of the Jesuit Order. And if you remember that, you probably remember his worldly youth...