A Carpe Diem Snapshot: I've been chained to the computer the whole day to make a deadline for a new book on stoic quotes that I'm...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Look who's back! On Holy Saturday I posted a photo of this same chapel at the Basilica of San Pancrazio but the...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Yesterday's April Fool's Day steady and gloomy rain (which ruined everyone's Pasquetta picnic plans) brought us...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Today's April Fool's Day joke was played on me by a lovely- but rather rude- fat white duck by the pond in Villa...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: After the Easter feast today some of the lovely students and I presented all the guests with a "tableau vivant"...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: "And a little child shall lead them." -Isaiah 11:6 These three photos present a sequence of events this morning....

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: I am an incorrigible procrastinator. As a result, yesterday I missed not one but two of the liturgies I was hoping...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: My Art and Architecture of Rome students' final project is the creation of their own coat of arms, including a...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: The very heavy rain this morning must have been the straw that broke this old camel's back! The sun finally...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Liturgical: Tuesday of Holy Week The Lord called me from birth, from my mother's womb he gave me my name. Station...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: This scene only lasted for a minute or so but I'm glad I captured it before busy Cordelia flitted away to her next...

A Carpe Diem moment: Liturgical: Palm Sunday Morning after morning he opens my ear that I may hear... Fr. Plant's Homily Bishop Barron's...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: I discovered this small church of Santa Marina just now, even though I had once lived in this town long ago. It...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: In Italy, a Carpe Diem moment can often be dining al fresco on an unseasonably warm day (and splurging on a bowl...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: The Tyrrhenian Sea at Santa Marinella at sunset. Liturgical: Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent "The Abraham...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: I discovered two of my favorite themes depicted in art yesterday on the side of the Lord Byron statue in the...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: This is the St. Joseph altar in St. Peter's Basilica, to the left of the baldachino. Today I was able to attend...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: It was a very international St. Patrick's Day party at the villa Magnolia last night! Although we lacked the...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: The flower fairy/Spring sprite/resident comedian/tableau vivant model is all decked out for the St Patrick's Day...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: All roads lead to Rome, and unexpected reunions here are a delightful regular occurrence. At the end of the...