Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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~1~ Summer vacation is ending. It’s time I acknowledged that. I like to take off the last week of August to help get our sons ready for the school year. But somehow, with school starting on Tuesday, I realize that our school supplies are only 95 percent together, the summer writing assignments are not complete, […]
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For their birthdays and Gotcha Days, our boys always get to pick something special for dinner. So as we were counting down to our younger son’s Gotcha Day—the seventh anniversary of the day we met one another—I asked him how he wanted to celebrate.
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For our younger son’s Gotcha Day, we took him to a hibachi grill. He was excited to go, but then when we got there, all he wanted was a plate of fried rice.
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Back in December 2009, I was standing in the lobby of the U.S. Consolate in Guangzhou, China, with friends who had just become parents through the miracle of adoption.
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What could be more fun than eating sushi on the water in Fell’s Point on a summer evening? We were about to find out.
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My husband and sons made it home as the rain was starting, but there were no fish for dinner.
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Over the past few weeks, I have been going through some boxes of photos and mementoes. The idea is that I will organize them and maybe even discard some things I don’t need.
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Sometimes people do terrible things. They hurt people deeply. They hurt children. They let down people who look up to them, people who trust them. They lie about what they do, and sometimes they tell the people they are hurting to lie, too.
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It’s not really summer around here without at least one taste of steamed crabs.
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Colleen McCormick and Don Hudson were taking off from an airport in Mexico with their children last week when their plane started shaking and crashed.
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Our 8-year-old wants a dog. He’d probably settle for a cat, but he really wants a dog.
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We’ve had a mixture of rain and sun this week, and one night I slipped out of the house to run to the store for strawberries.
