Today's Carpe Diem Snapshot: Caught the full moon before sunrise! Liturgical: Saturday of the First Week of Lent "So be perfect, just as...

Today's Carpe Diem Snapshot: Today we were privileged to see the incredible work of the Mosaic Studio of the Basilica of St. Peter!...

Today's Carpe Diem Snapshot: After a long morning out with Valentina for Art and Architecture class (media on IG), I took my weary child...

Today's Carpe Diem Snapshot: The artist-in-residence turned 11 today. She not only baked her own birthday pie (marshmallow mixed berry,...

Today's Carpe Diem Snapshot: Carpe Cat! Here is a photo of one of my Art and Architecture students appreciating the inherent wisdom of...

Today's Carpe Diem Snapshot: In contrast to yesterday's excursions, this morning I barely moved a muscle due to the amount of desk work...

Today's Carpe Diem Snapshot: What a day! Rome is a grace-filled city, full of contrasts and contradictions, spirituality and sin, filth...

Today's Carpe Diem Snapshot: There goes the sun! I couldn't get these two homebodies out to the city or park today but we caught a bit of...

Today's Carpe Diem Snapshot: On Fridays throughout the liturgical season of Lent, today being the first of these, there is an ancient...

Today's Carpe Diem Snapshot: This semester I have the privilege of introducing the Art and Architecture of Rome to this fun group of...

Today's Carpe Diem Snapshot: This year has provided an opportunity for a discussion of the sacrificial nature of love with the...

Today's Carpe Diem Snapshot: Believe it or not, this snapshot is about more than just me finding a "cute dragon" to hug, and a student...

Today's Carpe Diem Snapshot: "You don't know what you've got until it's gone" is an expression that is true for so many simple daily...

Today's Carpe Diem Snapshot: There's a lot going on in the scene I captured for posterity this morning. First of all, Cordelia always...

Today's Carpe Diem Snapshot: When the forecast calls for two days of rain, it's time for a Jane Austen tea party. This has become a...

Today's Carpe Diem Snapshot: It was a gray, blustery day in Rome today, perfect for a catnap. The cat caught napping here is Minerva, the...

Today's Carpe Diem Snapshot: Almost every afternoon, when I notice the sun sinking rapidly behind the umbrella pines, I gloomily tell...

Today's Carpe Diem Snapshot: Magnolias are blooming in Villa Pamphili Park! They are some of the prettiest- and earliest- flowers of...

Today's Carpe Diem Snapshot: The Capitoline hill is one of my favorite locations of the Art and Architecture class as it is the epicenter...

Today's Carpe Diem Snapshot: Minne di Sant' Agata! Liturgical: 1Kgs 8 A dwelling place for the ark of the covenant; PS 132 Lord, go up to...