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Where does the term “spring cleaning” come from? If you grew up reading Laura Ingalls Wilder, you might know that our pioneer ancestors spent days every spring beating soot and dust out of their carpets […]

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Meatless links, it goes without saying. • On Catholic World Report, Mark Shea writes about “living lent in the fast lane”: Lent is the reminder that all this sort of thinking is, well, ashes. Bupkis. […]

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