> Today is St. Valentine’s Day! As a journal entry, I made my students find out the real story behind this day, a day that makes all of us who are single feel like shit because we have not been hit with cupid’s arrow. If you look back at history, there are several Saint Valentines–they were martyrs in ancient Rome.
Read more>So four nuns walk onto a plane . . . It sounds like a bad joke and for me, it was more like a cosmic joke. This morning I boarded my Southwest Airlines flight from Detroit to Phoenix (layover to Burbank). Our flight had been delayed because the flight scheduled at the gate before us had a broken plane and
Read more>OK, so I didn’t do so well with Catholicism. But I wasn’t quite ready to give up on organized religion just yet. After all, I was only in elementary school. One of my closest friends, Krystal, went to a Baptist church within walking distance of my house. During the week, she attended their Awana club–where you wore vests like in
Read more>I recently watched the film “Angels & Demons,” another Ron Howard creation based on one of Dan Brown’s controversial novels. For me, it brought back memories of my own strict Roman Catholic childhood. I realized that there is so much history left out of the Catechism teachings that are forced upon children as soon as they can read and memorize
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