A Carpe Diem Snapshot: As you are probably already aware, the "Country Mouse/City Mouse" theme is one I frequently refer to, especially...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Less than a day after her first visit to a studio of a working artist, Valentina received her first professional...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Valentina and I were fortunate enough to visit the art studio of a "Baroque-style" artist yesterday, our new...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: There were many small Spanish dancers around St. Peter's today; these costumed children were not here to dance for...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Transversing Piazza San Pietro inevitably provides any number of Carpe Diem moments with the sheer number of...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: We celebrated the beginning of the season of long summer nights with this beautiful view yesterday, atop a vine...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Welcome, June , and welcome, summer! It already feels like it's August here in Rome today, which was a sticky...

A Carpe Diem : Today we had the ideal visitors to celebrate the Feast of the Visitation- the Puglia mother and daughter duo re-enacted,...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : Here's another example of the far-reaching legacy of one great individual, and in this case the individual is...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: What a full morning in Rome! Today the Ave Maria University summer program students went on their official...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: This isn't the prettiest Carpe Diem Snapshot, but there is a story behind it connected with today's catechesis by...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Circumstance obliged Cordelia and I to walk several miles today back and forth to the school and to run some...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Today we felt as though we had accidentally walked onto an Italian movieset when we followed a crowd of...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: This memorial, on the back wall of the chapel at the Venerable English College , is one of my favorites in Rome....

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Being jostled around in a mob of humanity in a Zara store is a very different experience than being shoulder to...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Have you ever met an author of an encyclopedia? Fortunately, some encyclopedias are still being printed in our...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: At the last possible minute to catch the light of the setting sun last night I finally left the villa after...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: The apricots on the back terrace have ripened early this year, as Spring began a few weeks early this year in...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Happy Birthday, Grandma Kirk-- 85 years young today!! Since we couldn't be with her in Michigan, we did what she...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Cordelia and I were home "sick" today-- guess which one of us was really sick and which one of us somehow found...