Sister Mary Dominic Pitts, OP, a member of the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia Congregation in Nashville, Tennessee, taught on the faculty of Aquinas College in Nashville from 1987 to 2018 and is currently writing supplementary materials for online educational projects. Her other published works include a chapter on religious vows in The Foundations of Religious Life: Revisiting the Vision (Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious, 2009) and notes on regionalisms in the third edition of the American Heritage Dictionary.