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Escape to Rainbow Valley, Then Keep Fighting

July 2, 2020 By Haley 14 Comments

Last week was hard. There were fresh waves of anxiety over a huge spike in Covid cases in my city. Relief that our curve was flat for so many months gave way to weariness and worry. Now each day we're getting more new cases than we had total from March to mid-June. Our curve is flat....just in the wrong direction: straight up to the sky. The city is open--and our total deaths doubled last week. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness, Culture, Faith & Liturgical Living Tagged With: anne of green gables, beauty, covid, goodness, justice, racism, rainbow valley

The False Gods of American Politics

June 20, 2020 By Haley 53 Comments

“I’ve been uncomfortable speaking out against racism because it sounds like something a liberal would say.” “I’m struggling to reconcile my pro-life beliefs with ‘conservative’ policies that that deny the dignity of immigrants and the poor.”  “I’m politically homeless because I think that the lives of unborn babies and black and brown people should be protected.” “I love the beauty … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Catholicism, Culture Tagged With: Catholicism, politics, religion

‘Emma’ Film Review: A Delightful (but Slightly Flawed) Visual Banquet

March 17, 2020 By Haley 10 Comments

The very short list of good things resulting from this pandemic are people making their own bread, more time to read, and the new adaptation of Emma being released to stream in your living room. Yes, dear reader, Universal has heard your cries for Jane Austen and if you didn’t see it the movie theatre before they closed, you don’t have to wait for this viral outbreak to be over to watch Emma. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness, Culture, Films Tagged With: anya taylor-joy, emma, film, jane austen, johnny flynn, literary adaptation

Why You Should Read This Book by a Guy Who Sat and Talked to People at McDonald’s: A Review of Dignity by Chris Arnade

July 15, 2019 By Haley 2 Comments

If I could suggest only two books about the current landscape of America right now they would be Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson about our prison system and the recently released Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America by Chris Arnade.  I first heard of Arnade from my husband, Daniel, who started following him on Twitter ages ago. “Have you heard of the guy who sits and talks to people who … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness, Community, Culture Tagged With: back row america, book review, chris arnade, dignity

“Tolkien” Struggles to Explain the Magic that Tolkien Effortlessly Captured

May 7, 2019 By Haley 7 Comments

In Tolkien, the new movie based on the early life of J. R. R. Tolkien, myth and romance are the antidote to war. Guest Review by Boze Herrington “To be caught in youth by 1914,” wrote English novelist J. R. R. Tolkien in a second-edition foreword to The Lord of the Rings, “was no less hideous an experience than to be involved in 1939 and the following years. By 1918 all but one of my close … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness, Catholicism, Culture, Films Tagged With: boze herrington, film review, j.r.r. tolkien, the lord of the rings, tolkien, tolkien film

Don’t Be Paralyzed by the “Ideal” Creative Routine

January 20, 2019 By Haley 18 Comments

This tweet about author Ursula K. Le Guin’s writing routine came across my path this weekend: Ursula K. Le Guin’s writing routine is the ideal writing routine. pic.twitter.com/D0sXigDvWe — Michael J Seidlinger (@mjseidlinger) January 18, 2019 Honestly it sounds dreamy...and nothing like my writing routine. So I thought I'd share mine: All night long: Nurse the baby 6am: First … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness, Culture Tagged With: creatives, routine, schedule, the writing life

A Reading Challenge for Catholics in 2019: CathLIT!

December 19, 2018 By Haley 59 Comments

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One of my favorite things about the internet is having more people to talk about books with. And I love seeing reading challenges from my favorite writers and bloggers pop into my inbox this time of year. I thought it would be fun (mostly to get some accountability for my own 2019 reading list!) to set up a reading challenge of 19 Catholic books for 2019 so we could all dive a little deeper … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness, Catholicism, Culture, Faith & Liturgical Living

The Triumph and Necessity of Festivity: Why We Trick-or-Treat

October 31, 2018 By Haley 20 Comments

Why We Trick-or-Treat

To Halloween or to not Halloween? While Halloween began as All Hallows Eve, the vigil before All Hallows (All Saints Day), and certainly has Catholic roots, whether to participate in cultural celebrations of a now secularized Halloween is controversial in Christian circles. In the Protestant circles I grew up in, “Fall Festival” parties or “Reformation Day” parties were the order of the day. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Community, Culture, Faith & Liturgical Living Tagged With: All Hallow's Eve, festivity, halloween, trick-or-treat

Do You Need to Remember You’re a Human Being?

October 17, 2018 By Haley 11 Comments

Do You Need to Remember You're a Human Being?

One of the worst things about modern life is the push to live at high speed. Most of us are rushing around trying to keep our heads above water. Not only do we not have time for self-care, we don't have time to even figure out what we would do for self-care if we did! I think “self-care” is a tricky phrase. It can be interpreted as selfishness or putting our own needs before the needs of those … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness, Culture, Family & Homesteading Tagged With: family life, humanizing, The Grace of Enough, time

Why Catholics Should Be Aware of (and Denounce) the White Supremacist Ideology of the Alt-Right

October 25, 2017 By Haley 123 Comments

The other day I was scrolling through Facebook when I saw an image of a family. The caption added by my Catholic Facebook friend was the beautiful quote by Pope St John Paul II “As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.” This particular quote communicates a beautiful Catholic view of family, but the image accompanying it immediately made me hesitate. It … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Culture, Faith & Liturgical Living Tagged With: alt-right, catholic culture, racism, tradlife, white supremacy

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