A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Every year on All Saints Day we choose the name of a saint written on a small piece of paper out of a bucket. As...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: All good things must come to an end... Some of the mighty umbrella pine trees are toppling over in Villa Pamphili...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Today we find ourselves in the town of Velletri , in the Castelli Romani. It is my first excursion outside Rome...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: In honor of today's feast of St. Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians, I wanted to post something about sacred...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: It was a difficult task choosing today's Carpe Diem Snapshot from the many options provided by the Art and...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Visitors to Rome invariably comment on the omnipresence of graffiti , some of which (regrettably very little) has...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Thousands of years of history are captured in this one frame! Today, the Art and Architecture class passed over...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: This is my "room with a view"! The "new" St. Peter's Basilica is the reason why we are living in this location,...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : With reportedly over 900 churches in the city of Rome , it's probably impossible to visit them all. This week,...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : 28 years ago today St. Teresa of Calcutta received honorary citizenship of the United States. It was only the...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Today, we were tipped off by a local friend that this charity Christmas market, run by the organization Circolo...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Today's Art and Architecture class "refreshed my heart in Christ," taking my cue from today's Mass readings. We...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Today is Market Day at Villa Magnolia! The eager shop keeper Cordelia is demonstrating some wares for sale here,...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: A Carpe Diem Snapshot: The other day, these two beauties came back into my life when they were returned to me by a...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: This Carpe Diem snapshot was borrowed from Hannah, who observed Remembrance Day at the Commonwealth War Cemetary...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Yesterday we started something new for Four Season Schole- a "Friday Club," with our other homeschooled friend in...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Today's Carpe Diem Snapshot was "supposed" to be captured at the big liturgy at the Basilica of St. John Lateran...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: While Cordelia is benefitting in many ways from spending her days in a structured school environment with other...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Today I was surprised by a Servidoras in the Basilica of San Bartolomeo in one of my favorite places in Rome, the...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Yesterday morning I blogged about how we are country mice in city mice clothing, yet, by the end of the day, my...