Sicilian Girl

Tweet “Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul” -Henry Ward Beecher Spring is my favorite time of the year! My roses and geraniums are in full bloom. The rosemary bushes are alive with the buzzing of bees (doing what bees do) and every time I walk past the basil plants, breath in […]

Tweet “The 40 days of Lent” has always been more of a metaphor than a literal count and begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sunset before the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday. It is a penitential season of prayer, fasting, alms-giving and a time to hit the ‘pause button’ on life […]