By: Mary Fran BontempoTo hear an audio version of this post, click the play arrow below.With the exception of their shame-faced sabotage of the Nazi vehicles in pursuit of the beloved Von Trapp Family, the nuns in the movie The Sound of Music were positively angelic, serenely walking around their abbey and singing, wondering what to do about their “wild-child,” Maria. I had a slightly different experience.As a six-year-old Catholic school child growing [...]

By: Mary Fran BontempoTo hear the audio version of this post, click the play arrow below.Sooo...I'm sitting here watching Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve (obviously a few days before you're reading this) and thinking about what I want for the New Year. Of course there's the list of Miss America wishes--world peace, an end to war and hunger, etc., etc., but since as I'm writing this, it's the last day of 2011, [...]