Merry Christmas and Happy New Year’s Eve! 2023 was a wild year, with some of the best and worst moments of my life wrapped into 365 days. It’s led to a change in the way I see writing and evangelization, and that’s still a change I’m working through and discerning. But one of the majorContinue reading “2023 in Literary Review”
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Advent in May: Rediscovering Galilee
“The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them.” This first sentence from today’s Gospel on the Feast of the Ascension serves as a bookend to the Easter pilgrimage we began seven weeks ago. The Gospel for the Easter Vigil recounts the first words of the Resurrected Christ: “DoContinue reading “Advent in May: Rediscovering Galilee”
The Writer’s Vocation
Dear reader! Happy…new year? Spring? Summer break? Needless to say, it’s been a while. I don’t usually feel butterflies when hitting the “Write” button on this blog. But it’s been a long time since I even had the desire to hit that button. I just got back to Indianapolis after spending a semester in RomeContinue reading “The Writer’s Vocation”
Boundless Confidence
Last night my family went to the Johnson County fair. It was about as midwestern as you can get and a truly delightful time with family. But the highlight of the night for me was the six-year-old girl in front of me and my sister while we were in line for a questionably safe ride.Continue reading “Boundless Confidence”
A Singular Glance of Tearful Eyes
One year ago on this upcoming Friday, I sat in the grass with Jesus present in the Church behind me. Trying not to hopelessly squint into the setting sun, I shared my witness with a group of middle and high school students on the feast of Mary Magdalen. It was such a tender gift toContinue reading “A Singular Glance of Tearful Eyes”
Happy Hearts Day Part 2: Litany of Courage
I have so many dreams as a writer. This post fulfills a dream that for so long seemed too wonderful to even hope for. This is my first piece in post-Roe America. How beautiful is it that the first day of this new period in American history falls on the Memorial of the Immaculate HeartContinue reading “Happy Hearts Day Part 2: Litany of Courage”
Your Lenten Playbook: 100 Ways to Holiness
It’s so strange to think back to Ash Wednesday of last year. I went to Mass in the morning with my family, hurried off to ballet, came home for school, sang at ANOTHER Mass with my Schola Cantorum, then hurried off for more ballet rehearsal, my forehead covered with burnt palms. Who knew that aContinue reading “Your Lenten Playbook: 100 Ways to Holiness”
Why College Board Should Pay Attention to National Vocation Awareness Week
Ah, the first week of November. Buckets of Halloween candy are still overflowing. Every four years, an election is taking place. Christmas commercials have begun to sneak onto TVs and YouTube ads while families begin to earnestly discuss Thanksgiving plans. And for every youth group goer, the familiar strain of Chris Tomlin’s, “I Will Follow”Continue reading “Why College Board Should Pay Attention to National Vocation Awareness Week”
Called to Conversion: What I mean when I say, “This Changed My Life.”
“This changed my life.” It’s a sentence that I find coming from my lips more and more frequently. For a long time, I feared the phrase, “life changing,” because I didn’t want to hyperbolize. As someone who has become overwhelmed by the goodness of pumpkin pie pop tarts, I sometimes need to keep my passionateContinue reading “Called to Conversion: What I mean when I say, “This Changed My Life.””
Living Full Throttle 