As I write this article, I am doing my level best to ignore the piles of clean laundry in the other room. There has, I am sorry to say, been a good deal of arguing amongst my brood today. And I am not quite sure what we will have for dinner. In fact, were Chesterton…
Catholic Homeschool Conference
So sorry for my long absence… sort of! I’ve been doing important work – of the most amateur sort – taking care of my wonderful children. I’m happy to say that I have recorded a talk for the Catholic Homeschool Conference. This is an online affair and will have many wonderful speakers, including Pam Barnhill…
Giorgia on my Mind
In late September 2022, shortly after the election of Giorgia Meloni as Italy’s presumptive new Prime Minister, a surprisingly loud fervor was caused by her mention of Chesterton in a speech. References to her speech and Chesterton reverberated through the main stream media, and caused quite a stir. Personally, I received many excited emails pointing…
Faith of our Fathers
My daughters and I made a trek up to Rochester, NY for the regional Chesterton Conference, and it did not disappoint. The Rochester NY Chesterton Society conference on the history of the Church in England was such a joy-filled and informative meeting. The talk by Ted Janiszewski, of St. Irenaeus Ministries was absolutely inspiring. Ted…
Lepanto
One of the best ways to introduce Chesterton to children is his poetry – and one of his best poems is Lepanto. Every October 7th, the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, the children and I listen to a recording of Lepanto like the one here: At the same time, we read the poem….
A Hope for the Decline of Civilization
Now, I’m not a Luddite, but will admit, as a mother of 7 boys, to have wished that technology might disappear, or at least be severely limited in my home. Playstation restrictions and rules do little to curb the attraction my boys have to the blinking lights, fast action, and endorphins generated by the infernal…
Why Settle for Equality?
“Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex superiority, that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father. No one, staring at that frightful female privilege, can quite believe in the equality of the sexes. “ G.K. Chesterton – The Higher Anarchy, Whats Wrong with the World The fight…
41st Annual Chesterton Conference
I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to share my love of Chesterton and the natural and supernatural gifts he has given me in this talk with the attendees of the 41st Annual Chesterton Conference. Thank you to the Society of G.K. Chesterton for making the talk available.
A House in which she can be Free
I would give woman, not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free. G.K. Chesterton, A Modern Slave, What’s Wrong with the World Chesterton saw the home as the place in…
Chesterton’s Fence Part II
The alternative to the family is the individual. Within the family is mutual obligation. The parent cares for the child, and the child is then obligated to obey and care for the parent. Chesterton saw that as first the father and then the mother was removed from the home, the basic unit of society was…