Michelle Martin

September 6, 2017

Road tripping

Travel broadens the mind, or so I’ve been told. It doesn’t always feel that way when you have two parents and three kids confined to an aluminum can hurtling down the highway, with nothing to distract you for hours but the occasional rest stop.

August 23, 2017

Age of reason

Years ago, I remember learning that the “age of reason” is 7, or thereabouts. I wonder if the people who came up with that ever spent much time with any 7-year-olds, because reasonable just isn’t in the cards for most of them.

August 9, 2017

Appreciating Mary

On Aug. 15, we celebrate the Solemnity of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

July 26, 2017

When you least expect it

It’s always the things you don’t expect that come back and bite you.

July 13, 2017

Rushing the season

Have you seen the back-to-school ads yet? Frank said he saw his first one before he even got out of school for the summer. Since the Fourth of July, I’ve seen them everywhere: in my daily newspaper, on TV, on my Twitter feed.

June 25, 2017

A week late …

This issue of Chicago Catholic comes to you a week after Father’s Day. It seems appropriate, then, to honor my husband and other fathers now, because that’s how Father’s Day celebrations often feel: a day (or a week) late, and a dollar short.

June 11, 2017

Spinning into summer

I’ll say this for summer vacation: By the end of it, fidget spinners will likely be a thing of the past. Except, possibly, for kids who actually need something to keep their hands busy to allow their minds to focus.

May 28, 2017

Prayers for the road

Driving is an intensely social act. That fact has been brought home to me these past few months as Frank has been learning to drive.

May 14, 2017

Meet the new dog

There is a time and season for everything, and this week, for us, was time for a new dog. We had to put our old dog, Polly, to sleep after more than 11 years with us. By the next day, Teresa and Frank were looking at the websites for local animal shelters, scouting out likely prospects. Within a week, we went to a shelter, met one of the dogs they’d had their eye on, and brought her home.

April 30, 2017

Laundry Day

“In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” That’s what Benjamin Franklin famously said in a 1789 letter.
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