Peggy Bowes is a freelance writer and the author of The Rosary Workout. She graduated from the US Air Force Academy in 1988 and served nine years as an Air Force pilot. After leaving the military to raise a family, Peggy pursued her lifelong passion for fitness, becoming a personal trainer, Lifestyle and Weight Management Consultant, and aerobics instructor. Peggy is also very active in parish life. She has been a lector, CCD teacher, and Little Flowers Girls' Club leader. She enjoys triathlons, hiking, adventure races, and other sports as she incorporates all the benefits and blessings of The Rosary Workout. Peggy and her husband and two children currently reside in North Carolina.
I pass the bathroom mirror in my home and automatically glance at my reflection, once again stopping to stare in fascinated horror. My eyes are red and puffy, surrounded by raccoon-like purple bruises. My nose is bandaged and swollen, recently broken after I unexpectedly fainted and fell flat on my face. Surgery has repaired the [...]
My children and I were shopping at a busy Wal-Mart after school. As we searched high and low for the graham crackers, we overheard a woman nearby scolding her two young daughters. They’d clearly had enough of the shopping expedition and were beginning to whine and complain. The exasperated mother bent down to their level [...]
I recently renewed a friendship with a long-lost high school friend on Facebook and was surprised by her rather liberal views on politics and religion. At first, I thought that I should move on as our world views were so very different, but I enjoyed sharing old high school memories and conversing about topics that [...]
It’s such a cliché, the New Years’ Resolution List. Each year we are programmed to begin anew by making a list to correct our various shortcomings. We set goals to be more organized, save more money or get in shape. We are filled with hope, yet statistics show that the resolutions will likely be abandoned [...]
Last week, I interviewed Michael Flaherty, the amiable president of Walden Media, about the upcoming release of Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I was given the opportunity for a follow-up interview, and I decided to focus on his experience as a Catholic homeschooler in Hollywood and the upcoming projects for Walden Media. Voyage of the [...]
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is the latest movie adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ beloved Chronicles of Narnia series. The story opens with the Pevensie children separated from one another. Peter is away at college, and Susan is on vacation in America with their parents. The spotlight is on Lucy (Georgie Henley) and Edmund (Skandar [...]
Michael Flaherty is a devout Catholic homeschool dad of three. He created Walden Media as a movie, television, publishing and internet enterprise whose goal is to teach and entertain kids. Walden Media has created such films as Bridge to Terabithia, Charlotte’s Web, and all the Narnia movies. After screening his most recent release, Voyage of [...]
When my husband recently retired from the Air Force and became a Junior ROTC instructor, I picked up a new additional duty—dry cleaning gofer. Since we were new in town and I didn’t know anybody, I often chatted with the employees and got to know their names. One day the regular girl disappeared, replaced by [...]
Best-selling Christian novelist Karen Kingsbury has some very persistent fans. They organized a grassroots movement on Facebook to bring the shoestring-budget indie film version of her popular novel, Like Dandelion Dust, to local theaters throughout the country this weekend. Based on this information, I was expecting to screen a movie along the lines of compelling [...]
When I was a little girl, I loved to curl up on the sofa and flip through my favorite book of 365 saints, reading random stories that caught my interest. One particular saint always held my attention. Her name was St. Thecla, and the illustration for her biography depicted a beautiful young girl with long [...]
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St. Benedict for Beginners – The Third Step to Humility
This is the ninth in a series on St. Benedict for Beginners. – The Editors The Third Step to Humility ‘The third step of humility is that for the love of God a man should be obedient to his superior in all things.’ Obedience? What a sign of scandal in an individualistic age! The whole [...]
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