I’m over at Catholic Rural Life today, talking about community, food blessings, and bacon! Since the beginning of time, human social interaction, community, has centered around the shared table. Hospitality. We welcome friends to join around the table, toast...
On this Feast of St. John Paul the Great, I’ve been thinking of three of his most famous words. “Be Not Afraid!” Considering that he spoke many, many words and ALL of them were worth hearing, it’s ironic that we can boil it down to these...
Yesterday was….pigalicious. And that doesn’t mean we got to eat a great deal of pork. For the most part, raising pigs is a fun and exciting, albeit strenuous, good time. Yesterday, not so much. We were scheduled to take our biggest hog in to be butchered,...
In the push to get kids reading as soon as humanly possible, I think our sweet kids are really missing out in the long run. We purchase ten pounds of books, guaranteeing to teach a three year old to read. We plug them into iPads loaded full of “learning...
I seriously heart stock. Learning to make stock has really upped the nutritional ante in my kitchen. Now that I can make my own, for pennies, it has become a daily staple in our diets. The other day, I made a beef stock that was unbelievable. Thanks to some...
There is an article floating around the parenting corner of the internets lately, about the dangers of leaving children unattended. It’s not actual danger, like injury or abduction, but the danger of busy bodies do gooders waiting to turn in well meaning mamas....
