Where I Spent My Time Online: Young Adult Edition

The Young Catholic Woman

In her own words:

The Young Catholic Woman was created from a whirlwind of troubles that will inevitably be faced as a young woman: heartache, anxiety, spiritual exhaustion, and job hunting. Carolyn wanted to create something beautiful from her portion of pain. She wanted to encourage other young women who are going through these years to hold fast to her faith, and show them that between moments of darkness is the light. As young women, these are the days when we slave over trying to understand God's will and trying to decide whether or not the 50 cent vanilla shot in our latte is really worth it (it always is). These are the days when 90% of our prayers are about men. The YCW will serve as a place of feminine insight into the joy, camaraderie, frustration, heartache, and autonomy on this beautiful journey to Calvary, targeted for (but certainly not exclusive to!) young Catholic women. It is a place of encouragement.

What brought me to The Young Catholic Woman this month? It was the simple cleaning of my emails that brought me to visit again. In October of 2013, (yes: like my closets, my email does not get cleaned out often);

The Young Catholic Women founder, Carolyn Shields, wrote me a very sweet email introducing herself and her then-brand-new site. I had every intention of sharing the site when I investigated it last year, but busy mom syndrome took over and it never made it to one of my Tech Talk columns. I am a true believer in God’s timing is always perfect...maybe that is because I am continually apologizing for missing deadlines or forgetting to do something! I have to say visiting it today after so many months, I am very pleased at how Shields has developed and the great blog contributions she has available now to read.