Vivir con miedo es como vivir a medias. An experiment in the essayistic. An inquiry into what I might divine. Each statement I make offers a proposition, a theory about the reality we share.

The musings of writer, mother, musician and whatever else takes my fancy.

A Catholic View of the World. The lens that brings everything into focus. How to read Thomas Aquinas. I am, at best, an inconsistent user of social media. When I do use it, I do so ambivalently, often as a distraction from more important matters. Or because I fall into the SIWOTI syndrome. Hat tip to Leah Libresco, who pointed me. By Paul Graham on the topic of addiction.

Guest post by Brooke Williams. Whenever I write a novel, I am amazed at the things about myself that end up in the book. It could be little details like my clumsy nature or something much deeper. Ha I should have known then I was meant to be a writer. In hindsight, I wish I had been more like Danica in past years. She knows what she wants and she goes for it. She does whatever it .