Sally Thomas

Here. And here. And here. And more. And also here. Not for sale, but beautiful to behold. . . . . Continue Reading »

Now, many people who keep the porch light on at Halloween like to hand out items other than candy. Once, as a newlywed, I gravely underestimated how many mini Almond Joys my neighborhood’s population of pirates and Smurfettes was going to require, and was reduced to handing out pennies. These . . . . Continue Reading »

Start your week off right with some headlines and other items (not all tongue-in-cheek) from around the internet: Canonization Images at Catholic Eye CandyAdvent Preview: Watchman, Tell Us, What the Heck Is That Blue-and-Yellow Explosion Meant to Be? Unitarian Universalists Embrace Moral . . . . Continue Reading »

Well, so it’s Friday. Grey skies, kids with the flu, still not entirely sure the Nobel thing isn’t some kind of Facebook hoax. Am I summing up your day here? Thought so. We need cheering up. And you know what they say: when things get tough, the tough sit down and go tappitty-tap and . . . . Continue Reading »

Everywhere she goes, he goes. She’s brought him here for Sunday tea. He’s been with me two weeks , she says and deftly shifts him on her knee. The rest of us try not to see the fine blue feed-tube up his nose or how his spine won’t hold him up. She says, I’ve called him . . . . Continue Reading »

In the combox for my last post, I mentioned that my children have begun planning not so much their Halloween costumes as their saint-characters for the All Saints bash at church. That is to say, the girls have it all worked out. The teenager spent much of yesterday afternoon paging through Rosa . . . . Continue Reading »

Tour this selection of religiously-themed Halloween candy at Belief.net. And I’d be curious to find out: 1. Do you celebrate Halloween at all? Why or why not? 2. If you don’t, do you just ignore it, or do you do something alternative instead? In the interest of transparency, we do do . . . . Continue Reading »

It’s been a not-unexciting week around here, but let’s see what’s happening in the wide world: Russia Fined, Refuses to Recognize Scientology as ReligionEpiscopalians Get Spiritual, Grow BasilChristian Filmmakers to Focus on Making Good MoviesHistory Too Kind to Confucius? . . . . Continue Reading »

Tuesday we celebrated the Holy Archangels; today it’s our invisible guardians whom we feast. Herewith, some stuff: Okay. If you were going to buy wings for the Christmas pageant, you could go ahead and get them today. Not great art or theology or anything, but little kids like dressing up, and . . . . Continue Reading »

I didn’t know it until I started googling around this morning, but right now the relics of Saint Therese of Lisieux are touring the United Kingdom. Today she’s at York Minster; more about the itinerary here.Swine flu fears aside, if you’re in the neighborhood, go and say a prayer . . . . Continue Reading »