A Carpe Diem Snapshot: This summer I have been wishing to help the girls make more progress with their musical education and expand their...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Did you know that August is "Family Fun Month"? And a whole lot of other things. Probably this month was set aside...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: So long, July! As you can see, the end of the month review resulted in quite a few amendments and eliminations....

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Yesterday there was a spontaneous tea party in our home at a much-anticipated reunion of friends after a year...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: This morning I snapped this photo of the cat lounging on top of all my summertime to-do lists and idealistic...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Today I have been reflecting on the responsibility of inspiring others, which seems to fit with today's Mass...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Today we strolled over to the Little River Schoolhouse to attend my sister Felicia's local history club meeting,...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: The aspiring artists have just completed a second summer camp experience with Artworks, this time learning about...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Yesterday's Carpe Diem moment arrived when we walked into the screened-in porch of an old friend, probably two...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Today I am sharing a photo from a carpe diem moment captured a few years ago at the tomb of St. Charbel in the...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: When you are with a friend who really understands you, or at least is willing to try to understand you, time seems...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: If I had to choose just one word to sum up our adventures yesterday it would be "inspiring". From an uplifting...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: An ode to the Full Buck Moon of July (or Thunder Moon, or Hay Moon) and my all-time favorite composition,...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Winning the prize for our visitors who traveled the farthest this summer are Mr. and Mrs. Girard, pictured above,...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: You know the saying that once you are really interested in something you begin to see it everywhere? Well, after...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: This has to be one of the funniest photos of Cordelia taken to date, and boy, do I have a lot of them. Here, she...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Dirt! There is something surprisingly therapeutic about getting covered in it. My mother obviously does not agree....

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Cats and Books! Why is it that these two things so frequently go together? Is it that bookish people are more...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: "Life is better at the Lake" my couch pillow reminded me, as I looked up from my work when I noticed how quiet the...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: "The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late" is a poem that was composed by Bilbo Baggins and spontaneously sung by...