Back to the Future

We have been discussing Mardi Gras themes for this year since before Mardi Gras last year.  Let’s just say that ‘Masquerade’ didn’t impress everyone. You can’t win ’em all. Anyway, Philip just up and decided that Super Heroes would...

Yay, Lent

We mardi gras-ed it up right last night.  Things were loud and sticky and just about perfect. Yes, I thought, this Lent will be great! Cue rueful laughter here . . . Again we keep this solemn fast A gift of faith from ages past, This Lent which binds us lovingly To...

Light in the Darkness

Today was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.  It rolled off of a night of fitful sleep full of teeth grinding which was proceeded by an argument with my beloved that had been rearing it’s ugly head for days.  Before that was an evening that...

Marked

Tess and Ellie, laughing riotously, ran down the hall on Sunday. “Good thing they’re washable markers otherwise we’d look pretty silly for mass!” they shouted. Their faces bore elaborate mustaches and goatees, all penned with colorful Crayola...