Sally Thomas

It’s a rainy day here in the Carolina foothills, and I have been out in the driveway washing the dog. What possesses a person to wash a dog in the rain? Well, I think “possesses” is the key word here, because having just finished washing a dog in the rain, I can’t really . . . . Continue Reading »

Speaking of children’s Mass sets, I can’t believe I didn’t see this, either. . . . . Continue Reading »

These saints, they are so heart-able. Take Saint Francis here, for example. Everybody hearts Saint Francis. Even people who don’t normally believe in saints heart Saint Francis so much they put statues of him in their gardens. The Humane Society especially hearts Saint Francis, and why not? . . . . Continue Reading »

As I’ve mentioned here before, this year it’s fallen to me to teach the First Communion class at church. Three weeks into the experiment, and already I’m realizing afresh what I knew going in: I am not a classroom teacher. I know how long it takes one kindergartener and one second . . . . Continue Reading »

RequiemCambridge, September 2001A payload of people phoning home:their ghost voices linger, caught on tapes,rewound, rewound, as if listening could summon themback into themselves. The last hope’ssupplanted now with clinging to a missedcall, replaying it, imagining words —but what? . . . . Continue Reading »

Welcome back to where the stuff never stops. Let’s see what we have for you nice folks tonight. Now, I’ve heard of scalping tickets . . . These faceless angels creep me out: the identity-less-ness of them is as jarring and wrongheaded as, say, an angel image with your own face, which . . . . Continue Reading »

Nashville, Tennessee: home to the Southern Baptist Publishing House, the United Methodist Upper Room devotional guides, and many enormous churches. And what religious landmark do tourists want to visit? The Parthenon. Several years ago, by the way, the children and I read an historical novel on . . . . Continue Reading »

As I was regaling you all with our booklists the other week, it occurred to me to ask some of my homeschooling friends for theirs, and then to go looking for more. While I don’t think there’s any such thing as “homeschooling culture,” as a unified entity, what I observe among . . . . Continue Reading »

View the “50 Most Extraordinary Churches of the World” here. And don’t tell me you don’t have at least one semi-extraordinary church near you. . . . . Continue Reading »

So for example, if I am eating an Edy’s frozen lime fruit bar while reading Spe Salvi, then I am having a popcyclical. Your turn. . . . . Continue Reading »