{bits & pieces}

The weekly “little of this, little of that” feature here at Like Mother, Like Daughter!

You know how you feel weird for a few days and then you get a pain in your abdomen and you think, “hmm, seems like a muscle strain, but that’s a weird place for it on the side there” and then you do a search and see before the autofill even finishes that google thinks it’s gallbladder, so you think, “well, maybe it’s actually something like your gallbladder but there is probably some sort of essential oil/bone broth/witchcraft solution because you are not going to the doctor, and then you consult with a friend, and then you talk to a nurse, who says “go in now and don’t drive yourself”?

Or is that just me?

Anyway, it really did turn out to be a muscle strain, not related to indigestion that went before, I guess — at any rate, it’s not my gallbladder.* I’m not mad that I went, because you just know that I would have spent all weekend being afraid to eat and regretting the fun things I need to make for the Superbowl (go Pats!) and knowing that I’d stay awake wondering if I had to rush to the hospital in the middle of the night.

*May I just say how grateful I am to modern medicine that this issue was ruled out really quite quickly. Go modern medicine!

All of which to say, I only have this picture from yesterday afternoon of me knitting while being driven to figure all this out.

But I do have links!

Quick reminder: The Seven Sundays of St. Joseph start tomorrow. After many long years of praying this prayer, I am starting to see a pattern: It starts on Superbowl Sunday. That is good, because it’s easy to remember; it’s not so good, because it’s easy to get all excited about football and forget to pray. I do love St. Joseph though, so I encourage you to check in with him well before the game.


An unexpected opportunity for engaging with participants in the Women’s March — in the bathroom line at the Dominican House of Studies!


Fr. Schall has “retired” — he just celebrated his 89th birthday, as this appreciative and informative piece reminds  us (and parents, take heart! according to the author, this paragon of intellectual insight had no interest in books of any kind at all until he was a young man!)  — but he’s still going strong and getting better and better. Here he muses on “The Goodness and Humanity of God.”


A kind friend posted on our Facebook page the link to the Gutenberg file of  this interesting and oddly comforting Jewish Orthodox cookery book of yore. 


This post by Matt Labash is a bit edgier than what we normally share, but actually, I think the tone is warranted, given the subject matter, which is the disappearance of masculinity among our elites: Boys Will Be Boys and Eventually Should Be Men.

Here’s a pull quote, on the whining about how hard it is to raise boys to be sensitive and, well, more like girls:

“I not only don’t condone Reiner’s parenting approach, but actively advocate against it. I don’t raise my own two sons to be mouth-breathing hooligans out of the Male Stereotype Handbook. I want them to respect women, to be gallant, to stand up for the weak, to neither count themselves bullies, nor to suffer being bullied. In short, I want them to grow up to be well-adjusted men. Which used to be considered a worthy aspiration, not a badge of shame.”

I wanted to share with you the particulars of a conference coming up next month, on the subject of “Gregorian Chant in Pastoral Ministry and Religious Education.” There will be a special focus on music programs for children, especially homeschoolers. The conference will be at the St. Joseph’s Seminary (Dunwoodie – Yonkers, NY). Two good friends of ours will be presenting, including a keynote speech from the inimitable Mark Langley. Go and tell me how it went! Find it on FB here. (The registration deadline has been extended, so do plan on going!)

From the archives:

Cabin fever? Homeschool burnout? I have a post for that!


Early distant warning for wedding season! Here is my “read this not that” guide for marriage books.

 

 

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