A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Is there anything cuter than a giggling toddler? Yes, a giggling toddler with a cute and calm kitten posing next...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Ave, Caesar! My brave paddleboarders are not hailing Caesar here but we are nevertheless thankful for this month...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: This scene seems to be stuck on repeat as last summer I took almost the same identical photo of another kitten...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Today the girls, and their dear friends, put on their first play at their new theater-on-the-lake. To use the...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: It was an unusually busy morning in Mecosta, from a lecture at the Kirk Center, to a room full of kids at the...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Here is sweet photo captured yesterday of Cordelia picking July flowers with her new friend. No sooner had we said...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: All roads lead to Remus... well, I guess the correct thing to say here is "Our roads will end in Remus." Here we...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: I am blessed to have a few good friends who appreciate children's books as much as I do. One of them is pictured...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Portrait of a water lily: a beauty captured in full bloom on her last day of life. I found this flower floating by...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: The honor of being the Grand Marshal of the Independence Day Parade of the village of Mecosta was bestowed upon my...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: The things we do for kids. Adopt adorable kitties, for example. Kitties who are nocturnal and keep you up all...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Valentina "carpe diemed" this morning and got out on the water, despite the rain, which just won't stop falling...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Welcome, July! This month I was determined not to let the summer days slip away as quickly as they did in June, so...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Today we say farewell to one of the most beautiful months of the year- June. Each month I try to remember to make...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: This Carpe Diem moment was captured two years ago at one of my favorite sites in Rome, Castel Sant' Angelo, a...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: The Acton University gathering yesterday provided many Carpe Diem moments as I ran into wonderful friends, both...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: I unexpectantly met these fine, famous folk of the Collins Center for Abrahamic Heritage yesterday at the Acton...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: The beautiful baker has done it again! Overripe bananas were transformed into this luscious loaf of...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: At the end of last summer, we sold our large farm, where we had lived for thirteen years and created many fun...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: A fun way to Carpe Diem today is to mix up this dessert cocktail in honor of the saint with the peculiar diet, St....