A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Sun on snow! We are gaining one minute more of daylight each day, and I've really noticed the difference in the...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : Great-grandma Kirk had the honor of the final Christmas photo with Baby New Year of Piety Hill, little Cecilia....

Happy New Year! We made it, dear readers! It's great to be alive in 2025. And...all 365 blog posts have been created, per my 2024 New...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : Happy New Year's Eve! Tonight the Kirkos Caravan will be performing at Piety Hill. Wish you were here!...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: One benefit of experiencing a northern winter is discovering the value of sunshine through its lack. When the sun...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : The girls got their wish granted and enjoyed a white Christmas. It's a good thing they Carpe Diemed and went...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : Yesterday we moved back to the lake house, which means, for the girls, back to their non-stop costume dramas....

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : Another pre-dawn memory was created with early bird Cordelia today. I read The House on the Top of the Hill by...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : Another pre-dawn Carpe Diem moment. My day began at 4:30 a.m., for which I was grateful, thinking I could write...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : Home for Christmas! We had our first Carpe Diem moment of the day before the sun even came up, one of the few...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : We managed to visit the annual Vatican presepe exhibit in the final days before leaving for Christmas. It's...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : Here we go, off to see the snow (and Grandma)! Arrivederci, Roma! Liturgical : Monday of the Fourth Week of...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : Quo vadis? We are here at the spot where St. Peter asked that question of Christ, who appeared to him as St....

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : I am right now standing at one of my favorite places in Rome, the fields surrounding the catacombs of San...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : When visitors come to Rome, we have a good excuse to play tourist and see some sites we wouldn't normally have...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : I visited saintly ghosts of the distant past today in Santa Maria Antiqua , a sixth century church built inside...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : The Pantheon, the original Roman " calendar "! Liturgical : Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent Behold, the...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : Valentina is not the only talented artist-in-residence, as this photo demonstrates! Every day this semester,...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : I think this snapshot is funniest without a caption (you make one up)! Liturgical : Monday of the Third Week...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : With the end of the year approaching, I'm beginning to reflect on what New Year's resolutions have now become...