“Mr. Sparks is on the line.”
That was what I heard in my headset while I was waiting for my interview with author Nicholas Sparks. He had agreed to an interview with St. Anthony Messenger in conjunction with the release of the film The Lucky One based on his novel by the same name.
When I had...
Tomorrow morning, I will be gathering up my oldest daughter’s Girl Scout troop and heading to the base of one of Cincinnati’s many hills. Our goal? To pray the steps leading to Holy Cross-Immaculata Parish in Mt. Auburn. It is a local tradition that I have known since childhood when my dad, who...
For the past few days, I have been making my way around the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress in Anaheim, California. It is my first time here, and to say that it is an amazing experience is an understatement. Catholics from different countries. Catholics from 48 of the 50 U.S. states. (One of the...
The editors of St. Anthony Messenger work really hard to bring our readers interesting, inspirational, informative — and fun — articles. In October 2011, we started our “Living Simply” column as a way to help all of us slow down, pare back and try to make life a little less...
Let me preface this blog by saying I hate when my kids have group projects. I hate them because somehow it always seems that their projects somehow become my projects.
That’s what happened last weekend when on Saturday night my 13-year-old daughter, Maddie, informed me that her and her group needed to...
