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 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 [...]
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 9, 2010
The Chicks like to travel, take in Catholic sights, and hear great speakers. Really, we like to attend any event to deepen our faith, grow closer to Christ, and learn more about His Church. There is a big Catholic world out there, and we love to explore it! 2009 was full of great Catholic experiences. [...]
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 [...]
September 19, 2009
The Chicks are back from a major road trip- we were attending the 14th Annual Partnership Dinner and Dance benefiting InsideCatholic.com in Washington, D.C. Somehow we landed an invitation to this swanky event, and with the blessings of our husbands we took off for a 36 hour adventure. If we twittered- which we don’t – [...]
August 21, 2009
There’s an expression down South- maybe you’ve heard it. It goes like this: “Even a blind pig can find an acorn every once in a while.” Well sure enough, that is exactly what has happened! In an attempt to spend some quality vacation time at the beach in conjunction with visiting America’s oldest European settlement [...]
June 22, 2010
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