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I walked to mass this morning, and I don’t live “right around the block” from my parish church. Before anyone is too impressed, let me say that it was a kind of self-imposed penance after a lazy weekend of over-indulgence and indiscriminate eating. My thought was that a walk to church would do me some [...]
July 1, 2010
July 1, 2010. The race is on. I seem to be having a little more success with the tomatoes (the only thing I was willing to try) while Chick A is having great success with her jalapeno peppers (show off). After waking up in a cold sweat over the possibility that a squirrel might find my [...]
June 22, 2010
While traipsing around St. Joseph’s Benedictine Abbey searching for Walker Percy’s headstone with Chick B, I suddenly realized what a truly “southern catholic” moment I was having. For those of you who don’t know Walker Percy, here is a little bio info that may help explain why two Southern Catholic women would haul four kids 60 [...]
June 16, 2010
Looks like the green thumb garden duel could be a neck and neck race so far…..our tomatoes look about the same size, although I think a have more in number than Chick A (only because I started first). More later on the mint and jalapenos….. Here’s hoping that the squirrels don’t find my summer project! Chick B
June 15, 2010
The Chicks, our chickadees (kids) and the two roosters (husbands) are back from a fabulous road trip to New Orleans, and what a trip it was! Although we now are tweeting, we thought we’d fill you in on the timeline of major events that took place along the way….. Sunday, June 6, 9:00 am: excitement building [...]
June 2, 2010
Friend of the Chicks (FOC) Kim Schulman recently wrote a fabulous article on Eucharistic Adoration, and what better time to post her thoughts than the week culminating in the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi). Kim, a “cradle” Southern Catholic Chick, is a parishoner at Holy Spirit Catholic Church [...]
May 25, 2010
10 days from today the Archdiocese of Atlanta will host its annual Eucharistic Congress, a spectacular gathering of over 30,000 Catholics that includes a procession with the Blessed Sacrament, internationally-known speakers, confession opportunities, a Catholic marketplace, and a concluding mass that causes you to realize just what the Church means by calling herself The Universal [...]
May 21, 2010
There is something very Southern about playing in the dirt. Perhaps it is from our agricultural heritage down here in the South. I come from a long line of green thumb ladies. My mother, aunts, grandmother and mother-in-law were “horticulturally gifted.” They knew all the names and varieties of plants, were active participants in their [...]
May 18, 2010
It’s a little embarrassing, really. I have a mother who was once a dedicated tomato grower, and my mother-in-law still harvests both tomatoes and peonies, for heaven’s sake. And here I am, nearing the end of a fifth decade of life, and I’ve never even attempted a home-grown tomato. This from someone who eats tomato [...]
May 16, 2010
The month of May will always be the time that we reflect on our reception into the Church, and what a blessing our reception has been! From the relief of our first general confession to the on-going graces that the sacramental Catholic life provides, Chick A and I keep pinching ourselves. Will we ever stop [...]
July 6, 2010
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