A Carpe Diem Snapshot: The messy process of Spring cleaning, landscaping, and gardening has begun, as well as preparations for the great...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: It's the final Friday of Lent, and I finally made it to the Stations of the Cross stairway at San Pietro in...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: For our final Art and Architecture class today (sob!), we began at one of Michelangelo's masterpiece, that...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: In a big, busy city like Rome, choosing one street over another can produce a whole new set of unexpected...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : Fortuitously, we chose Piazza Venezia as our starting point for class today, which was unusually full of...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Casey captured this Carpe Diem Snapshot yesterday and created this spontaneous Sunday picnic! She reminded me of...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: It was a very full Passion Sunday in Rome today. Among the highlights was the annual exhibition of " Veronica's...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: I stalked these sisters to capture this snapshot this morning on the Janiculum hill and was rewarded by a lovely...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : The Guardians of Villa Magnolia-- our property patron, St. Anthony of Padua (on the bronze wall plaque), and...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : The girls and I went on the " Grand Tour " at the Pincio promenade today, in imitation of so many artsy...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Twenty years ago today, St. John Paul II died in the Papal apartments in the Vatican. I was overdue with my first...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Happy April! Dear Caroline was our first "fish" of the day, and a very good sport to walk around Piazza Navona...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: This morning, I received Nature Study Notes from Sheila Carroll in my inbox and began reading aloud to the girls...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Thanks to the NAC seminarians who have an apostolate with our Rome program, today some of the students and staff...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Cordelia's latest costumed creation last night- Moana on her raft , confidently resolute before the dangerous...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Just a few hours after our underground visit at the Basilica of San Clemente, we had the incredible fortune of...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : It was a chilly, rainy morning in Rome, so the Art and Architecture class's subterranean exploration of the...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: The other day, I chose the more strenuous path home- up the steep slope of the Janiculum hill rather than the...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: The Ave Maria Ladies in front of Santa Maria Maggiore on the Feast of the Annunciation 2025 Happy Feast of the...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Look who's growing up and has a place of his own already? Odin is now nearly three months old and noticeably...