The Case of Elisa Bauer: Some stories speak for themselves. ()

Boys: No, not those kind of boys. Little boys--the kind that are made of snakes and snails and puppy dog tails. I grew up with seven of them--yes, that's right, SEVEN BROTHERS. (They even made a movie about us, but left me and my sisters out. Anyways ...) ()

Babies and Boobs in Church?: Babies and boobs in church? ()

The Adventure: Anthony Esolen has an interesting piece up on Public Discourse. Although its title refers to the boy scouts, most of the article is actually an extended meditation on boyhood and fatherhood--not exactly an Altcatholicah topic, admittedly! But there were a few sentences that caught my eye, largely because they complement (or perhaps simply repeat) something that I've long thought about in the context of femininity. ()

Beyond Mommy Blogs: I don't mean to denigrate the Mommy Blog debate by any means--in fact, as a blogger and someone who knows a lot of young mothers (and has a mother herself--if you can fathom that!), I find the intersection of questions the phenomenon presents fascinating. But there are questions and motherhood, and questions about motherhood; and some questions--such as "When does a mother have the LEGAL right to stay home and educate her children," seem to be more pressing, or perhaps more basic than others, as the matter of the Romeike family illustrates. ()