September 2015 archive

The Pope and Working Moms

I am fascinated by the Catholic Church.  I attended Catholic school from first through sixth grade.  I was sent there by my very much not religious agnostic mother and atheist father.  It’s like a set up for a bad sitcom, right?  I loved my Catholic school education though was always deeply skeptical of organized religion […] Read more…

The Two Things I will Never Tell My Children

As mothers we spend a lot of our time shielding our kids from the harsh realities of the world until they are ready to face them. School shootings, dead three-year-old Syrian refugees, teens who overdoes on heroine, missing commercial airliners – the list of frightening things that our children can be exposed to is overwhelming.  […] Read more…