September | 2016 | Fountains of Carrots

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We’ve wanted to have Tommy Tighe on the show ever since Haley’s family met the Tighes on their road trip around the country last summer.

Tommy is a husband, father, and marriage and family therapist in the Bay area. He writes for CatholicMom.com and Aleteia and co-hosts the Catholic Hipster Podcast with Sarah Vabulas. He is also king of Catholic Twitter (did you even know there’s such a thing?). His Catholic hipster book will be published by Ave Maria Press Fall 2017.

We don’t remember an episode where we’ve laughed so hard as we did with Tommy. We cover Haley’s composting toilet, what the heck Canadians dip their french fries in, and the insanity of social media. But the conversation does get very serious when we discuss the death of Tommy’s newborn son, Luke, this past spring. Tommy was willing to share about the pain his family has been experiencing and how we all can do better to support families experiencing grief or crisis. He has some great wisdom to share about how to show up for your friends when they’re suffering and what to say and what not to say.

We loved talking with Tommy we think this episode is going to be helpful and inspiring. It’s a great episode, so grab some coffee and listen in!

Tommy’s article: A Letter to the Lady Annoyed by my Kids at Mass

How to connect with Tommy:

Come hang out with us!

The Fountains of Carrots Raspberry Cordial Social Club on Facebook (our Facebook group)
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Girls need good books. Everyone needs good books, of course, but since we have both been girls who benefited from friendships with some formative classics we get all fired up about books for girls!

In this episode we realize we could talk for a week just about the Anne books and we discuss why young girls need these authors beside them as they grow up. These are some of the books at the top of our must read list that we will be sharing with our daughters (and sons, but especially our daughters).

So grab a cup of tea or a pile of laundry to fold and enjoy!

Books We Talk About in This Episode:

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing film directed by Kenneth Branagh

Shakespeare Stories for Young Readers by E. Nesbit

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

Links for This Episode:

10 Books You Must Read to Your Daughter by Haley

Thanks to Ignatius Press for sponsoring today’s episode. Here are the three excellent books on Mother Teresa we mentioned in the podcast, follow the links below to purchase and use the coupon code MTERESA16 to get a 20% discount!