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July 27, 2022

Parenting through Subliminal Messages and Fruit Flafay

Monday night, Paul decided sleep was for the weak. He started singing around ten o'clock. ...

July 11, 2022

Why You Should Go to Mass on Summer Vacation

I started writing back in 2004. I wrote for Lisa Hendey at Catholicmom.com from the...

July 11, 2022

And Now, I Know Why We’re Not Going Anywhere…until I am Not In Charge

In college, I took the GRE and there were all these analytical questions where if...

July 04, 2022

The Great Reset

Photo by Lilartsy at Pexel I love birthdays, New Years Day, Sundays and Anniversaries, changes...

June 2022

June 30, 2022

Sunday, Sundae, Sun Day Someday

Today and yesterday, I spent from 9-3:30 on Zoom in a professional development. I understand...

June 28, 2022

And Maybe That’s Why…

So today, I met with my doctor. Karolina Grabowska Dr: How are you feeling? Me:...

June 25, 2022

Starfish

Photo by Mark Walz Most people remember the starfish story. I did some digging on...

June 21, 2022

Dog Days Before We Get to August

School is out. The hormones I'm taking to fight the cancer make me edgy and...

June 18, 2022

What it Means to Be Pro-life

To be pro-life, one must advocate for the invisible. Who are the invisible? They are...

June 14, 2022

So What Are You Going to Do This Summer

Yesterday, we celebrated the graduation of our seniors at my job. Riding back on the...

June 10, 2022

The Tiny Whispering Memory

The summer I learned to swim, I was exploring underwater at the YMCA, lost in...

June 07, 2022

We Are Not Called to Win

Just a reminder to all who want to follow Christ, who want to be disciples. ...

June 06, 2022

Becoming Invisible

In my sojourn through Catholic media, I notice a lot of scorn for whosever is...

June 04, 2022

The Vanishing Act of Childhood

Everyone knows that nothing makes the not yet grown up set we're legally obligated to...

June 02, 2022

Part of Why I Write is to Find Out What is Churning in My Brain…

In the past week, I've been to an in person graduation, a virtual graduation, watched...

May 2022

May 31, 2022

Surrendering, Security, and All of That

This weekend, we celebrated the Feast of the Ascension, Christ joining God the Father, and...

May 27, 2022

My Summer Book List

I've tried to explain to my children and my classes, that books aren't just assignments...

May 25, 2022

Would That This is the Last Time

My brother posted this list on his page. I started checking the names. Thurston High...

May 23, 2022

Come and Stay

“Come and stay at my house” These are the words of Lydia in today’s first...

May 22, 2022

So Yesterday…I Tempted Fate

And the rains came and started our basement project early. We bailed. We pulled up...

May 21, 2022

Not Wading into It

There's lots of ripe fruit for Catholic bloggers right now, I want none of it....

May 17, 2022

Over at Our Sunday Visitor This Week

The beginnings of thoughts on the horrific shooting and violent deaths of ten people in...

May 13, 2022

Are We Salt of the Earth, or An Assault on the Holy Spirit by Our Acts

To be a disciple is to deny one's self, to discover how dependent on grace...

May 12, 2022

Glimpses

Each month is a different intention (focus) in my prayer life. Since I have ten...

May 09, 2022

The Road to Heaven is Paved with Effort

"The road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions" is not actually something we should...

May 02, 2022

We Need to Look, Smell, Feel and Breathe More Catholic

I watched Superman --Man of Steel, and the fundamental argument is that sometimes, you have...

April 2022

April 30, 2022

What Must We Do?

There's been a growing trend amongst those in the Catholic world of media. Those who...

April 25, 2022

What do You Do?

We just celebrated the Divine Mercy Sunday. We've held a Year of Mercy. Personally, I...

April 18, 2022

Easter Monday…How are We an Easter People?

Most of us get Advent and we get Lent and we get the big wind...

April 16, 2022

The One Thing We Know…We are Not Ready

Author's Note: Wrote this last Friday before flying to Texas on Saturday to visit family....

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