Molly was a girl who lived in 1941 when World War 2 broke out.
Molly’s dad was serving in the army as a doctor.
She was a picky eater and especially hated turnips.
I like Molly because she was my age and was exciting.
An American Girl
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Best of the Best in 2014
Drum roll please… The results are in for the 2014 Best of the Best in all the respective media categories. Please see below and also the archives for previous years. Happy viewing and reading everyone, and as always, we would love to know what you think in the comment section below. Continue reading
Observing a Good Advent
I love the posts people share in this penitent, but expectant time of the church year. I have recently re-tagged all of our posts shared in the past around Advent and Nativity. I invite you to share some of your own favorite blog posts in the comment section below that we may be mutually encouraged by one another’s faith.
Blessed and fruitful time to all in preparation our Our Lord Jesus Christ’s Nativity in human flesh!
New Page Highlighting our Favorites
Please check out the new page created highlighting our favorite media from year’s past. Hope it will help you and yours to be inspired as we have been by these superior works of cinematic and literary art.
Happy Birthday Blog!
Only two years ago today, Like Mendicant Monks had its beginning. Here we are two years later still delivering reflections, media reviews, and hard hitting analysis of wherever on the planet our family happens to find itself.
Thanks to all of you who have been with us on the journey since the beginning and to all who may have more recently joined us. We have come a long way together, and with God’s help, we have miles to go before we sleep. May God richly bless you all!
Sochi on the Mind
Just getting ready to sit down as a family and watch the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony tonight in Sochi, Russia on the Black Sea. It is a long and often difficult road for any city to host a worldwide event like the Olympics, and we have personally traveled that road with Sochi. Went there several times as a family and blogged about it as well, for those interested in reading something else about this resort, seaside beauty besides Russia’s stance on homosexuality or difficulty with security. We can’t wait ourselves to see on TV how much they have built since we visited a few years ago.
Tea Time in Boston
Just making sure my readers here don’t miss what is posted in my otherwise dormant blog…
Today marks the 240th anniversary of what has come to be known as the Boston Tea Party, December 16, 1773. We had the good fortune of taking our home school to the new living history museum that has been built in Boston Harbor to commemorate the historic event (free to all on this historic day). The old museum was closed in 2001 and later suffered a fire in 2007. But the new living history museum that has been built in its place is better than ever before.
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Our Thanksgiving Celebration
Here’s my middle daughter also getting in on the blogging action with a piece about today’s celebration of the great American holiday of Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving is about pilgrims. They gathered food and had a feast with the Indians. Today we celebrate thanksgiving by making a puppet show for our guests. Continue reading
I Love the City Until…..
I love that Chris Tomlin song as well… Makes me proud to be worshiping in an urban Church! Two quotes come to mind. G.K. Chesterton said of patriotism, “I do not love a country/city because it is necessarily lovable. It is lovable because I love it.” I used this in my post on New York City.
Also, “As harbors in the ocean, God established Churches in the cities; so that, fleeing from the confusion of life’s matters, we might enjoy serenity there.” St. John Chrysostom.
Last night someone broke into our car. I foolishly left the windows down – just one inch, forgot to lock the doors, and didn’t alarm the car. It was a, what do you call it? A sitting duck? Open game?
Whatever the idiom, there was nothing to prevent someone from trying to get in.
We keep little in our car. Some coins for parking meters – a city ‘must-have’, Kleenex, and Altoids. Altoids were strewn across the passenger seat. Quarters and dimes were gone, the thief randomly leaving nickles. My husband found the car this way well past midnight as he went to pick up one of our kids from the airport.
We live in the city, and I love the city. I love the bustle. I love being able to walk to get coffee, walk to get groceries, walk to the subway that takes me just three stops to…
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Confessions of a Middle-Aged Faith – A Repost
Great gloss on a passage that preachers often apologize for. I remember it well in the lectionary. It is the Sunday before Nativity, the Sunday of the Ancestors/Forefathers of the Lord. And yes, I think it’s chief message is that faith is primarily personal and not abstractly theological.
I always loved this passage because as a Bible Quizzer it used a lot of key words (words only used once in a given book of the Bible). There is a message there for us. We are God’s key words, uniquely created for the space and time which we inhabit.
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