On Saturday, after a relaxing morning of taking her ACT exam, Molly will head over to St. Thomas More Church to be confirmed. She celebrated this Catholic rite of passage by firing off a letter to our pope, encouraging him to consider a more active promotion of gender equity within the global, Catholic community. I [...]
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A sweet and spicy 16th birthday
The sweetest treat of Molly's 16th birthday turned out to be a full house. All three of her older siblings turned up for the occasion, which we celebrated, among other things, all weekend long. Sixteen can signal freedom in this country and a significant mark of passage. Molly's brother Vinnie gave a Croatian key chain [...]