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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
January 5, 2010
Once I invited a bunch of my children’s school friends over for lunch at our home. It was the end of the school year, and we soon would be going our separate ways on summer vacation. One of the mothers wondered if there would be enough food, offering to go and pick up something for [...]
December 23, 2009
Some people dream of a white Christmas. Me, I dream of a “Martha Stewart” Christmas. All southern chicks know what I am talking about - a beautifully decorated tree adorned with perfectly wrapped and color coordinated packages; timely Christmas cards with smiling, happy children and a neatly groomed dog; creative handmade gifts for teachers and [...]
November 30, 2009
The strangest thing happened to me one night when I was listening to my daughter describe details of a trip with her grandmother (my mother) to New York City. As she talked about their stroll through Little Italy, a flood of tsunami proportion hit me. Suddenly, I was transported back to a time in [...]
November 24, 2009
As Thanksgiving approaches, we have been counting our blessings. Like any good Southern Catholic Chicks, at the top of our list are always faith, family and friends. But there are a host of other things for which we are grateful. Here are just a few that we thought we would share. Feel free to add [...]
March 7, 2010
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