by Monica | Oct 27, 2021 | TOBET Blog, by Monica Ashour, Saints and Holy People, Catholic Life
As Halloween approaches, I think about candy and haunted houses, Trick or Treat and the color orange, spooky decorations, and the World Series. But perhaps I need to be reminded that Halloween originated as a celebration of All Hallow’s Eve, the day before we...
by Monica | Sep 29, 2021 | TOBET Blog, by Monica Ashour, Catholic Life
From The Body and Reverence.Illustrated by Gary Undercuffler When I was a teenager, I worked 70 hours a week during the summer at Continental Grain Company in Ft. Worth so that I was able to pay my way through Nolan Catholic High School. At Continental Grain, I became...
by Monica | Nov 13, 2020 | TOBET Blog, by Monica Ashour, TOBET
Just in time for Christmas, TOBET is releasing another storybook entitled Happy and Whole. Author Amy Dedman shares delight in God’s design of the human body with much humor, for pre-school through kindergarten children. When I read Happy and Whole to my special...
by Monica | Oct 19, 2020 | TOBET Blog, by Monica Ashour, TOBET
Cover of our NEW Level 7, Book 1: Our Bodies Made Male & Female (Second Edition) “Mom and Papa, do you think I should really publish this book? I may go to jail for it.” “Do what’s right, Monica. We will visit you in jail,” they said with wry but truthful smiles! ...
by Monica | Sep 24, 2020 | TOBET Blog, by Monica Ashour, TOBET
Cover of our Level 8, Book 2:Catholicism for EveryBODY Five years… and finally finished! The very last book of The Body Matters program has arrived from the printer! I must admit, I have reread my own book five times since getting it two days ago! And it is a...