Huck Finn by Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Short Stories of O'Henry
Beowulf by Anonymous
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Little Flowers of St. Francis
Call of the Wild by Jack London
Love Poems by Emily Dickinson
Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson
Withering Heights by Bronte
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Emma by Jane Austin
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
The Iliad by Homer (Lattimore translation)
Apology by Plato (Rouse translation)
Confessions by St. Augustine (Pine-Coffin translation)
Inferno by Dante (Sayers translation)
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The Four Loves by C. S. Lewis
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Elliot
Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. Chesterton
Edgar Allen Poe: selected stories and poems
Collected Stories by Flannery O'Connor
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Here Comes Civilization by William Ten
The Quest for St. Aquin by Anthony Boucher
Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
When you see your best friend you say, "Hey Stranger" or "Hi Dear" because you can't remember what the heck her name is.
You wear layers of clothes so you won't embarrass yourself when you start stripping in a hot flash.
You say things like, "Put the trash down the hamper" and "Bring the dog in from the oven."
You buy pregnancy tests by the gross.
You've plucked a long black hair from your chin or nose recently.
Your girlfriends and you debate the value of HRT versus tofu.
You're not sure what your hair color is this week.
You wear Birkenstocks, not because they're fashionable but because they're good for falling arches.
You're losing your nouns and find yourself saying things like, "Honey could you get that thing in the shed for me? You know, the thing that's red with wheels."
You know what progressive lenses are.
Your husband never knows if he's going to wake up to Dr. Jekyll or Mrs. Hyde.
You're so emotional that you sob everytime a long-distance commercial comes on.
You subscribe to the Minnie Pauz newsletter.
You clip coupons for Poise pads.
Your kids have asked you, "Mom, are you getting shorter?"
You get in the car and then can't remember where you're going.
You not only know what "the big squeeze" is, you've had it done to you.
You've taken to wearing pantsuits.
You keep your underclothes in the freezer.
Your favorite CD is Menopause the Musical.
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
—Marcus Aurelius
What you recommend for a high school English/American literature reading list? I have my own ideas and I would definitely drop a few I had to read. I remember being assigned Truman Capote's In Cold Blood during my senior year English class. I just didn't even read it. I didn't think I could bear the violence of it. What would be your top 10 books for the high school list?
e stage, the teen girl, who was helping the little girls, told Princess to make sure to stand in the center so the judges could see her. Well, that's what Princess did, she stood the whole time in the center and didn't walk a step. It was so funny. I think she really enjoyed watching the older girls model their sewing creations as much as participating.
If it wasn't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done.
Yesterday was spent in the woods with the four biggest kids as they competed in 3-D archery.
rgets altogether). The animals are marked where the kill zone would be on the real animal. Points are scored when you hit the kill zone. In some competitions, you receive negative points if you hit the animal but miss the kill zone. This is becaus
e in a real hunting situation you wouldn't want to injure an animal, perhaps causing a slow painful death. Zero points are awarded if you miss altogether.
Whoa, look at that man's tattoos.This is my life.
Wow.
That's a lot of tattoos.
That's gross.
Check out the scorpion.
Wow, a scorpion.
Mom, Mom, see the scorpion.
Mommy, why does the man have an earring in his nursy?
That's gross.
Men don't have nursies silly. They have nipples.
Mommy, Mommy, why does the man have an earring in his nipple?
Mom sure would be mad if I ever did that.
th and timely too. He even put up a temporary site so that I could check on his progress. In the end he delivered a website beyond my expectations. In fact, he delivered two separate website designs for me to choose from. I just can't say enough nice things about Mad Hatter Design. BTW - they also do logo and business card design.
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Sparky made his First Holy Communion on Sunday. It was a very special day of course, but even more special, in a way, because he has celiac disease. Celiacs cannot digest wheat and so Sparky could not take Jesus in the form of bread. Instead, he took only the Precious Blood.“Come into my heart Lord Jesus and stay with me forever.”
As I sit at my computer, my seven-year-old daughter is teaching this prayer to her 32-month-old brother. It is a prayer of spiritual communion; a prayer to be said when one cannot partake in Holy Communion. Although it is very sweet to see my little ones praying together, my heart is aching. It aches because I know that there will be times in my son’s life when he will not be able to take Jesus in the Eucharist.
My son has celiac disease, a lifelong disease with no cure. Fortunately, there is a treatment: a change in diet. Persons with celiac have an intolerance to gluten found in wheat, rye, barley, and oats. As a result they must adhere to a strict gluten-free diet. Rice and corn are safe substitutes.
Recently, a Boston family made national news as they left the Catholic Church when they were told that their 5-year-old daughter, who suffers from celiac, would not be able to use a rice wafer when she received first Communion. The family instead chose to join the Methodist church, leaving the Real Presence behind.
I understand this family’s frustration, but leaving the Catholic Church is not an option for us.
This is not a disease to be taken lightly. Gluten damages the intestinal lining so that it cannot properly absorb nutrients. Even the smallest trace of gluten can lead to future illnesses, such as lymphoma.
At twenty months, my son was malnourished even though he ate a well-balanced diet and took a daily vitamin. He suffered serious weight loss, developmental delays, and cried constantly because of abdominal pain.
After he began the gluten-free diet, my husband and I saw wonderful changes in our son. We were thrilled. Then one day we realized that he would never be able to digest a communion wafer.
We asked our parish priest what we should do when the time came for our child to receive his First Holy Communion. In his forty years as a priest he had never encountered this situation and was unsure of how to proceed. So I sought the advice of Catholic adults with celiac. I had already begun networking through a local support group and the Internet, so I added Holy Communion to my list of questions.
I soon learned that a host made of rice flour was not a legitimate substitute for a wheat host. I am not a theologian, and cannot begin to lay out the theological argument for this, but 2,000 years of tradition appears to insist that the host must contain gluten in order to be a valid consecration.
The pastor of my in-law’s parish uses a low-gluten host, which is valid. This still causes some damage to the celiac priest, but he chooses to take the risk.
One woman told me that her husband receives Communion in the hand and brings it back to the pew, where he breaks off a very small piece to share with her, since even the smallest crumb is still in essence Our Lord. Most people that I talked to take communion under the species of wine and forgo the bread altogether.
Young children need only touch the wine to their lips. Since the particle of host that is dropped into the wine by the priest contaminates the entire chalice with gluten, a separate chalice is provided for the celiac individual.
Life is unfair, especially to little children who suffer from incurable diseases. My son will never share a pizza with his buddies, walk into a McDonalds to order his heart’s desire, eat birthday cake with his schoolmates, or take Communion under the species of bread.
As he will have to do with many other situations in his life, he will make special arrangements in advance in order to take Jesus into his body. When such accommodations cannot bemade, he will ask his Lord for a spiritual communion.
Even when he cannot take Jesus into his body, he can take Him into his heart. And he can offer up his sacrifice in love.
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