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While I had planned to eat pizza the first Friday during Lent, I didn’t plan on eating the pepperoni. After dinner that night, I had a flash back thought – I didn’t remove the pepperoni from my pizza. Instead, life took over, and I absent mindedly munched my way through dinner. So much for my [...]
March 3, 2010
The Chicks just returned from a lecture by Cardinal Walter Kasper- a friend of Joseph Ratzinger, an accomplished theologian, and a man dedicated to ecumenical dialogue with non-Catholics worldwide. His talk entitled “The Timeliness of Speaking of God” was brilliant, I think. I say that because, quite frankly, Chick A and I admitted to only [...]
March 2, 2010
It works every time here at our house- breakfast for dinner, that is. When the kids were young, we called it “Upside Down” day, when we would eat hot dogs for breakfast and pancakes for dinner. Now, we eat breakfast at night when the weather is really cold or when I can’t seem to get [...]
February 24, 2010
While I am not a fish-hater like Chick B, I don’t really like preparing and cooking fish at home. The whole experience just smells a little too “fishy” for me! So, if you are like me and prefer fish to be an “out to dinner” menu option, here is another great alternative to try on [...]
February 13, 2010
It’s almost Lent, and I have a problem. I hate seafood. It hasn’t always been this way, though. I have vivid memories as a child of eating salmon croquettes for supper. Also, our family shared a small cabin on a near-by lake with another family for part of my youth. There we often ate lots [...]
February 11, 2010
The Chicks love Valentine’s Day – mostly because of the chocolate and flowers. Who can resist an infusion of chocolate in the middle of a dreary, rainy southern winter? So in preparation for Valentine’s Day, we decided to do a little research to find out just who is responsible for those red heart-shaped boxes filled [...]
February 3, 2010
You’ve heard the expression “I wasn’t born in the South, but I got here as fast as I could…” Well in the Catholic world, this saying may no longer apply only to people. Friend of the Chicks (FOC) Fr. David Dye, the pastor at Mary Our Queen Catholic Church in Norcross, GA has been doing [...]
January 26, 2010
Some inspired educational entrepreneurs are taking Catholic education to a whole new level, quite literally. On the campus of Atlanta’s Holy Spirit Prep- an independent Catholic school that has been named one of America’s Top 50 Catholic High Schools for two years running- a new college has been formed. Students who enroll can earn a [...]
January 16, 2010
Whenever we go on a Chick Trip, we love to stop at the Cracker Barrel. If you are going on a family road trip, a spiritual retreat weekend, or visiting any special Catholic site in the Southeast, you are likely to find a Cracker Barrel restaurant somewhere along the road. If you aren’t from the [...]
January 14, 2010
A-men or Ah-men…… Which is it, exactly? Have you noticed how fellow Catholics say the word Amen? It’s A-men during parts of the mass and Ah-men during other parts. It’s A-men if you are a Yankee and Ah-men if you are from certain areas of the South. It’s A-men if you are a former Baptist and Ah-men [...]
March 7, 2010
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