Charles Dickens’ classic, Great Expectations, opens on Christmas Eve. It introduces us to Pip, an orphan who was being raised by his sister and her husband. As a boy, Pip didn’t think he’d amount to much but his chance encounter with a convict (Magwitch) and with a rich elderly woman (Miss Havisham) and her daughter...Read More
A funeral Mass for Ursuline Sister Jean Marie Hettinger was offered Nov. 21 at the Ursuline Motherhouse Chapel in Louisville, Ky. Sister Jean Marie died Nov. 17. She was 77.Read More
The lengthy Thanksgiving weekend provided yet one more thing to be grateful for – the opportunity to explore a few new things in Baltimore. My husband and I ducked into a back alley near Johns Hopkins, tooled around on bikes in Hampden, and explored an architectural treasure trove near the M&TRead More
A few months ago Leo’s teacher posed a question to her students each day, and their answers were written on a list on the wall. I wasn’t surprised by some of his answers, such as what made him angry (when my brother stomps on my train), or what made him afraidRead More