Hello. I’m Lydia, Catholic wife, mother, writer, cook and chief bottlewasher, trying to write about womanhood, faith, life and the unexpected joys and sorrows of secondary infertility. I’m a Yankee transplant to the Deep South and often wonder how people live without the smell of subway fumes.
Purpuraria means “seller of purple” and is a reference to St. Lydia Purpuraria. She’s belies the idea that religious women are mousy and blah. Read about her here.
