Laura Wrote a Children’s Book! (with a lot of help from John!)
How "The Gulf of Mexico: A Rhyming Animal Adventure" Was Born In January of 2022, we went fishing in the Gulf. As we got to the boat launch, there was…
Abbeye Notre-Dame de Sénanque (Provence)
Sénanque Abbeye by Luis Ascenso, https://www.flickr.com/photos/107521854@N05/22505170428 Pleasant Surprises in Provence Are we in Heaven? The Sunday Mass at Sénanque Abbeye felt like it. This was just one of the pleasant…
Fontaine Saint-Michel de Paris
Dramatic Oasis in the City A short walk from both Notre-Dame Cathedral and Saint-Chapelle, in the Latin Quarter, is the Place Saint-Michel, anchored by the majestic Neo-Renaissance Fontaine Saint-Michel. It…
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris
Still Standing against an October Sky Sitting on the Île de la Cité, the Notre-Dame Cathedral has been a Gothic icon of Paris for over 850 years. It took nearly…
Sainte-Chapelle de Paris
Holy Chapel Sainte-Chapelle means "Holy Chapel" and with good reason. It was built by King Louis IX (later Saint Louis) in the mid-13th century for a specific purpose -- to…
Duolingo Is Pretty Great, Not “Perfecto”
A world of languages. As part of the preparation to walk the "Camino Portuguese", which goes from Portugal to Spain, my husband chose to brush up on and study Spanish using Duolingo. As you may know, Duolingo is the number…
Praying Fatima’s Stations of the Cross
As mentioned in my Fatima Pilgrimage post, the night of our visit we got the inspiration to pray the Stations of the Cross which grace Fatima's Basilica of Our Lady…
Fatima Pilgrimage
Why we chose Fatima I have always wanted to visit Fatima, Portugal. Well, more accurately, I longed to go ever since my son was very small, and we learned the…
A Year of Pilgrimages in Faith-filled Florida
In March of 2019, I set out to do a year of pilgrimages throughout Florida on the First Saturdays of each month. Because I was inspired to encourage pilgrimages (and…
What exactly is a pilgrimage?
Looking up the word pilgrimage in the dictionary will get you something like the following: 1. a journey of a pilgrim, especially one to a shrine or sacred place2. the…