This morning, I was struck by an experience of silence after the Great Plague, and perhaps the inner feelings of a survivor. There's some echoes of our world in Covid, but a few nods to how a medieval mind might have thought. Could be an interesting character study....
Midsommar (2019, R) is a dark fairy tale (horror) film, my mind felt like a riot of themes and thoughts. But three figures refused to let me go, the May Queen, the Oracle, and the Bear. The movie is filled with overriding themes of trauma-bonding, cult over community,...
Hi friends, I'm so pleased to join Paola Ciskanik, founder of Catholic Homeschool Online, on her podcast to talk about this whole CatholicAuthor adventure. Check out her original post here. Do you or one of your teens feel a passion for writing but don’t know where to...
2 books called to me like grimoires throughout my childhood. An illustrated Bible, and the Usborne Book of Facts for Kids. Both were thick tomes dense with details and stories. My favorite part was the maps. A great big poster of the continents hung over a dresser in...
With my little girl 8 years old this year, I've wanted to sit and think through my objections to Halloween, as a cultural thing, as a psychological thing. Halloween as we see it today is a more recent thing, within the last century. I think it is largely obsessed over...
“We need a Catholic version of genre fiction,” she was telling me. “It’s important that our teens have Catholic versions of things to grow up with.”
Dominic de Souza, founder of smartcatholics.com shares his faith journey that spans 4 countries and 3 continents.
Something has disturbed me in watching the hype over exorcists the last few decades. I think it's come down to all the horror and thriller movies, where an exorcist priest is brought in as the last line of defense against evil. And it's true, they should be a last...
I learned something about myself this weekend that I didn't like. After watching a show, I couldn't decide what to think about it. So I pulled on the first available inner thread to see where it went. Now, to be fair, it's good to just sit and reflect and pull...