I just wanted to mention that I love, love, love baking. I love it. I could do it all day long, I think.

I don't know what it is. I just finished re-reading Gaudium et Spes, and it speaks a lot about culture. Culture, it says, flows from the principle that human beings were given the earth in order to help it flourish and to use it to help ( Read more... )

Ugh, I hate being sick. And this seems to be the kind of sick that lingers on and on indeterminately - the kind where you wake up and think, "Oh, maybe today I'll feel better," but by the time you're up and showered and out the door you realize that you made a terrible mistake and should never have gotten out of bed to begin with, because there ( Read more... )

Sorry for the lack of posts/comments lately! It's that time of year, you know, for us students. I just finished writing my supposed-to-be-25-page-but-ended-up-being-33-page-because-I-just-can't-shut-up paper on Catherine of Genoa for my medieval mysticism class. I feel bad, because I think that if ever I were to get a chance to get published ( Read more... )

There's a saying down South that God created palm trees and spanish moss in order to indicate to people where He wanted them to live ( Read more... )

I'm a little anxious now: I just added some of my liberal ND theology friends to my facebook friends' list, and they don't know that I am conservative. They are very adamantly liberal, which is fine - many of my friends are liberal, and we get along great - but whenever they go on their anti-conservative bashes I usually don't say anything (I don' ( Read more... )

Having a bit of a nervous breakdown - I have a huge presentation on Catherine of Genoa today, to take place sometime between 1:00pm and 4:00pm. I'm terrified out of my mind, so any prayers for inspiration and a calm brain would be most appreciated.

Breathe. . .

Any Italian scholars out there? Can you help me out with this passage?

E come Dio trova una anima che più non si muove, né si voglia, né possa muovere in alcuna parte sua propria, esso opera a suo modo, e mette mano a maggiore cose da operare in detta anima; massime che lui sa che non deve andare più niente a male di quello che opera, per parte ( Read more... )

In honor of Fall, I decided to share with you all some of my favorite recipes involving pumpkins. Enjoy!

Pumpkin Bread1 1/2 cups flour ( Read more... )

Just finished reading The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf. I think I need to read it again, this time with a more critical eye - the first time I just went with the flow of the stories and the characters. And I think that that's a good way to read a book for the first time - you read it for the story and the people. But a good book, as I see it, ( Read more... )

Going to the ND/USC game today!! Hope ya'll are watching! :) GO IRISH!