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Everything is all sixes and sevens around here this week, with me preparing for my annual Christmas Tree Decorating Party. This Saturday,...

So…sacramentals. This is the easy one. Yay! Hurrah! Special treat for me! No hate mail today! Or maybe not. I said that last week about...

I am currently persona non grata in my corner of Steubenville. Not because of any advice I've been dishing out as of late, but rather...

And we continue… Right out of the gate, I admit it feels hollow writing about decorating and home maintenance as hundreds of families...

This story originally ran in the October 8, 2015 Edition of Our Sunday Visitor, and was the inspiration for the Catholic Home series....

This is what I’m doing. This is me doing it....starting with point number one: The Catholic Home is well-maintained. Hold fire until the...

Our Sunday Visitor hates me. They must. Why else would they ask me to write a 3,000 word story about what, from a design standpoint, a...

Let’s talk about food. I know, that’s what we usually do here. But, I don’t mean, let’s talk about creamy plates of butternut squash...

Warning: You are not about to view the best photos of food on the Internet. You may, however, be witnessing the best photos of food on...

A long time ago, in a land far away (roughly 30 years and 650 miles), there lived a little redheaded girl who did not like her...

There’s a meme floating around Facebook right now that makes me happy every time it pops up in my newsfeed. Set against a backdrop of...

Sorry for the light blogging folks. I'm afraid it's going to be what way for the next month or so. A major book deadline is looming,...

I'm sorry that there's been precious little food blogging this week. That's partly because I'm way, way behind on a major ghost writing...

It's been a rough week around here. Not "people dying, children starving, hurricanes hitting" rough. Just "deadlines looming, plumbing...

When I started this blog, I promised my friend Lindsay that I wouldn't lose perspective on what I was writing about (food) and start...

On the list of “Things I Don’t Understand,” Pittsburgh traffic tops the list. Bruce Jenner comes in as a close second. Third, I think, is...

Dating in your 40s is a little like dating in your 20s. You still plan fun trips together and talk about cool new cocktail bars. But, you...

After last week’s post, “10 Things I Love About My Small Kitchen,” reactions fell into one of two categories: 1)“Beautiful kitchen!” or...

I’m not sure if people in Heaven are allowed to spend their eternity laughing at people on earth. Probably not. But, if they were, the...

A few months back, in the deep, dark, frozen recesses of January, a friend showed up at my door with two crates of blackberries in hand. ...