La Rocca, The Godfather, and “The Etna!” {#4 in the series} Dear Reader, This is #4 in our series of travelogues all around Italy, the UK, and Ireland from October…
Introduction: Reframing the 40 Days For many of us, Ash Wednesday brings the familiar question: "What am I giving up for Lent?" We often see these forty days as a…
Mosaics, a Market, Marsala, Monasteries, Miei Cugini and Martorana – from Sicily with Love Dear Reader, This is #3 in our series of travelogues all around Italy, the UK, and…
Bologna and Cheese, Two Seas, Our Family Trees (And, Of Course, The "Usual" Saints and Eucharistic Miracles!) Dear Reader, This is #2 in our series of travelogues all around Italy,…
Dear Reader, This is #1 in our series of travelogues all around Italy, the UK, and Ireland from October 2024 through June 2025. This opening one largely lets the pictures…
Michelangelo, St. Luke, and the World's Longest Portico Saint Luke's Madonna, Painted by the Evanglist. Bologna is world-renowned for its food, home to ragu, lasagne, and pink-hued mortadella. We arrived with…
The premiere of The Pendragon Cycle (January 22, 2026) takes us back to the "Dark Ages" of Britain. Unlike the polished knights of later medieval tales, this series draws from…
Candlemas: The Feast of Light As the last of the Christmas decorations have been packed away (for most of us), and the austere Lent is appearing on the horizon, many…
How to Turn Your Threshold into a Sacramental for 2026, where everyone that enters will be blessed.
“San Gennaro, protettore di Napoli!” The elderly women, called parenti, had been zealously and faithfully chanting all day, right up to that fateful moment when the chapel erupted in cheers…