Archbishop William E. Lori ordained Michael Rubeling to the transitional diaconate May 30.Read More

Introduction to our search for the right preschool:In searching for a school for our son Frank, who has developmental delays, we found it difficult to find a warm and safe place where he can play and learn.  This is the first in a four-part series on our preschoolRead More

A couple weeks ago we sent away for five caterpillars. When they arrived, they were tiny, moving around inside their plastic cup and not doing much else.They grew...and grew.Then on Friday the first two climbed to the lid of the cup and became chrysalides.As I understand it, and biology isRead More

Today I was vacuuming the living room—an event so rare  it would probably have deserved its own blog—when I heard our younger son come up behind me.“Mama,” he yelled over the roar of the vacuum. “I cut my hair!”I turned around and looked at his jagged bangs.“What? I said. “You’reRead More

The Knott Scholarship Funds have announced the winners of the 2015 Knott Scholarship Competition.Read More

The Preakness is barely over and there are already whispers about moving the second jewel of the Triple Crown out of Baltimore, possibly to Laurel. Some of these voices were heard on Twitter right after the riots decrying the dangerous neighborhood around Pimlico and how the city was just tooRead More

Shake, Rattle, and Roll would be the ideal theme song for "San Andreas" (Warner Bros.), an eye-popping, ear-splitting 3-D chronicle of a California earthquake.Read More

His Eminence Cardinal Edwin F. O’BrienFifty years of blessings:Today marks a joyous celebration as we honor the anniversary of our much-loved Archbishop Emeritus, who was ordained to the priesthood on this date (May 29) in 1965. Father Edwin Frederick O’Brien was just 26 years old when he was ordainedRead More