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Our peonies are blooming! In my second spring as an owner of a peony bush, I knew to watch for the ants crawling over the flowers before they bloomed.Who would ever think to put wax that ants love to eat over flower bulbs? Isn’t it amazing to watch the ants

Photos by Patti Murphy DohnIt seems as though every year goes by faster and faster…My first year of retirement from Campus Ministry has gone by in the blink of an eye.Now that the John Carroll Class of 2015, as well as all their senior high school peers across this

June 1 marks the 34th anniversary of the hot meal program at Our Daily Bread. This caring service of Catholic Charities has been committed since Day 1 to treating the city’s poor with dignity and respect with an eye to a brighter future. The hot meal program opened its doors in 1981 and

“Mama,” Daniel told me the other day, “I know how to count in Spanish!”“You do?” I was impressed. Who knew Pre-K was so advanced! “Can I hear it?”“Well, I only know ‘three,’” he said. “I think it’s ‘tray-del.’”

It’s the last day of school! I am so very sad to see first grade end. After the excitement of kindergarten last year, first grade—at least from this parent’s perspective—was a breeze.Leo could do his homework in the after-school program. His teacher emailed once a week about the assignments for

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“The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.”School’s out for summer:The schools in the Baltimore metropolitan area are almost all closed now for the summer break. The laughter of children is in the air.Today is the last day for my daughter who teaches third grade at Gunpowder Elementary

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Archbishop Lori kicked off the fourth annual Fortnight for Freedom on Sunday (June 21) at the Baltimore’s Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. With the theme “Freedom to Bear Witness” to the truth of the Gospel, the fortnight runs until the Fourth of

For Father’s Day our sons were so busy not telling their father what his gift was that of course he figured it out. “It’s not an Estes rocket, Baba.””Did he just tell Baba a lie, Mama?”We had to get John an Estes rocket, and when we saw that they made one

Our sons have decided they are going to open a gas station together. Their only disagreement is over which one of them will get to do the best job in the world—which is, of course, this.I suggested maybe they could take turns.