by Kate Dolan | Sep 25, 2017 | Articles, Faith, Kate Dolan, Latest Posts
Remember the hard boiled private detective? The private investigator hired to save a client wrongly accused of some heinous crime was a staple of page and screen for many years. But in our casual-Fridays world, the detective who stood out for wearing a cheap suit is...
by Kate Dolan | Feb 2, 2016 | Articles, Faith, Holidays, Kate Dolan, Latest Posts, Living History, Religion and Magic
Happy Cross Quarter Day! It’s better known to most of us as Groundhog Day. Today we celebrate the fact that we are halfway between Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. Okay, in the age of electric lighting the Cross Quarter is not a big deal for most of us,...
by Kate Dolan | Feb 13, 2015 | Articles, Faith, Kate Dolan, Latest Posts, Living History, Religion and Magic
Many superstitions date back to the medieval days when people believed that you could tell if your neighbor was a witch based her buoyancy in the local pond. But the “bad luck on Friday the 13th” thing doesn’t show up in lore until fairly recently....
by Kate Dolan | Jan 17, 2014 | Articles, Faith, Kate Dolan, Latest Posts
The mourning process is a surreal and awkward experience in modern American society. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. They pointed out to us in Sociology class (the only class required for all seniors when I was in high school) that our society doesn’t really “do”...
by Kate Dolan | Mar 4, 2013 | Faith, Kate Dolan, Latest Posts
Boy Scout Troop 306 in Catonsville has a long tradition of presenting a bouquet of roses to the mother of a new Eagle Scout. At the troop’s most recent Eagle Scout investiture ceremony, however, flowers were presented to both the scout’s mother and his wife. And the...
by Kate Dolan | Feb 22, 2013 | Articles, Faith, Latest Posts
My neighbor has decided to convert to Catholicism. That’s not news in most cases, people convert all the time. But the neighbor I’m referring to is not a person, it’s a church. St. Timothy’s (soon to be formerly) Episcopal Church, to be exact....
