Today is Pentecost. It also happens to be my birthday. Two very important events (at least in my world). Last night, when I went to bed, I was thinking about how I thought life would be at 27. I've always loved having a plan. When I was 16, I knew that by 22 I'd be [...]
Today, I moved home to NH from IL. Today, one of my biggest fears was realized. My 94-year-old, dear, Grandma Joan, forgot my name. My brother, Brendan, tried to prompt her: "Come on Joanie, you know this lady, who is she?" A shadow of confusion briefly crossed her face, followed by a twinkle of spunk [...]
My dad always washes floors by hand. It used to [alright, sometimes still does] drive my mom crazy. Especially when he did it *right* before company arrived. Or Christmas Eve. Or even on the last day of vacation. There was this old farm house we used to stay in on the Cape. I have memories [...]
“People are scheduling hookups now,” one teen exclaimed, “Literally, using Tinder to find someone to hook up with and then seeing when it will fit into each other’s agendas. That just seems so awful and awkward. I don’t get it.” “It seems like sex before marriage is becoming more and more widely accepted, people seem [...]
I love traditions. My family is always cautious to start something new, worried that I’ll suddenly exclaim, “this should be a new family tradition!” We have many, beautiful traditions in our family, but if we had a tradition for every time I declared a new one, we’d have hundreds…and then we’d probably have none because [...]
I credit my Global Literature professor, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and, as my mother would later point out, the Holy Spirit for the reason I ended up in Uganda in May of 2014. In the Fall of 2013, I took a Global Literature class at Plymouth State University. We were assigned to read the Purple Hibiscus by [...]
I sit in a coffee shop, across the table from Nathan, who has courageously offered to tell me — and in turn all of you — his story. In the middle of our conversation, I pause. “Nathan,” I ask, “why would you say addiction is a pro-life issue?” He looks at me and is silent, [...]
As children we are taught to identify what hurts, where it hurts, and how badly it hurts so someone we trust can fix it; a necessary skill we carry with us for the rest of our lives. When my throat hurt, I told my mom, we went to the doctor, and got medicine. When I [...]
ThenIf you had asked me seven years ago if I was pro-life, I would have automatically said, “Personally, yes, but politically, I’m pro-choice.” I took the comfortable position, the position that didn’t impose my beliefs on anyone else. I was able to take this stance because I knew nothing about abortion statistics, and because I [...]
Albert Einstein famously said the following: “Every one is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.” More often than not, I believe we are the fish, judging ourselves on our inability to climb a tree. And, time [...]
Caitlin Sica 