It is around noon on the Camino when we stop at a trailside café for lunch. There is an open table underneath a canopy where we set down our backpacks. Someone...
Author - Molly Jo Rose
As another academic year begins and students and parents scramble to gather all the supplies they need for school, let’s not forget the resources we have in...
Until Now Carrie Newcomer (Available Light Records, 2021) Carrie Newcomer’s latest album, Until Now, comes at just the right time, as many of us feel divided...
Every Sunday afternoon, my phone whistles to remind me to send a text to the “Rose-ary Chain,” a group of roughly 25 Rose family members who pray the rosary...
One bright morning in December, I broke my usual Sunday fast from technology to scroll through Instagram. My kids were dressed and the diaper bag was packed...
For the most part, a professorship is well suited to family life. The hours are flexible and schedules are not year round. However, because a typical academic...
It was 1994, a year in my life best represented by Doc Martens and dark red lipstick. But it was also the year my best friend married young and had a baby...
A joyful squeal erupts from the hallway outside of the kitchen as I prepare dinner. “En garde!” shouts my son in the deepest, throatiest voice his 8 years can...
There are many ways my husband and I differ, but perhaps the most significant is that I come from a family prone to spontaneous outbursts of song while he...
