A funeral Mass for Ursuline Sister Jean Marie Hettinger was offered Nov. 21 at the Ursuline Motherhouse Chapel in Louisville, Ky. Sister Jean Marie died Nov. 17. She was 77.Read More
The lengthy Thanksgiving weekend provided yet one more thing to be grateful for – the opportunity to explore a few new things in Baltimore. My husband and I ducked into a back alley near Johns Hopkins, tooled around on bikes in Hampden, and explored an architectural treasure trove near the M&TRead More
A few months ago Leo’s teacher posed a question to her students each day, and their answers were written on a list on the wall. I wasn’t surprised by some of his answers, such as what made him angry (when my brother stomps on my train), or what made him afraidRead More
The Turkey Bowl has been one of the biggest football games for two high schools in the Baltimore area for nearly a century. Calvert Hall College and Loyola Blakefield have competed against each other every Thanksgiving morning for 93 years. In fact, it’s the oldest continuous Catholic prep-school football rivalryRead More
Over the last 18 months, I’ve tried really hard to be the vegan I was mentored to be: to oppose all hints of eating animals or wearing them or watching them at the circus because animals shouldn’t be tortured for entertainment.But there was a problem stirring deep inside that IRead More
Just when the caterpiller thought it was the end, it turned into a butterfly. Or, as Hazel Norwell Ailor put it: “The longing for a warm cocoon recedes as new worlds beckon eager butterflies.”Read More