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April 2022

April 06, 2022

Singing Moments Deeper Into the Desert

I don't know if other people experience hearing music in their heads during work when...

March 2022

March 29, 2022

We Are All Messier than We Admit

We don't know how we would have acted in the heated moment. We only know...

March 16, 2022

Little Things that Lead to Somewhere Better

“She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything...

March 12, 2022

Where Did She Go?

Credit to Lokman Sevim Sorry I've been awol. In rebooting my computer, I needed to...

March 03, 2022

The One Thing We Know…

Wrote this last Friday before I hopped on a plane to visit family in Texas...

March 02, 2022

Ash Wednesday Reality

We are an Easter People who remember, we are also dust. We are both and. ...

March 01, 2022

LENT LENT AND MORE LENT

First, a very good piece by my friend, Simcha: Go Ahead, Give up Chocolate for...

February 2022

February 27, 2022

Remembering We are Ashes Before We are Ash

Image Credit: Gregory Gresko The man embracing the foot of the cross in the Ukraine...

February 24, 2022

Praying for Deep Peace

Seriously, pray for peace. Pray for the world. Pray for all in the path of...

February 20, 2022

How Can We Hope for What We do Not Give?

So this week, Jesus asks us to love our enemies. Who are our enemies? Those...

February 16, 2022

Over at the Register This Week

This week, while at adoration, I asked God if He still wanted me to be...

February 15, 2022

Some Miracles We Recognize

Saturday, Paul's team played basketball. He loves the game. He understands two things: shooting and...

February 10, 2022

I finished Chemo!

Since you folks have followed this on Patheos, you deserve an update. I FINISHED MY...

February 09, 2022

Love the Olympics, Have to Ask a Question…

So I love watching the Olympics. Summer, Winter, it doesn't matter, I love the epic...

February 07, 2022

Be a Tassel

We've all heard the Gospel so many times, we no longer hear what it says,...

February 05, 2022

Not a Memoir

When I write my blog, it isn't a promise that everything will be precise, but...

February 02, 2022

NFL Opts to Forego Superbowl and Keep Scheduling Playoffs

Given the way playoffs have finished the past few weeks, it might be more profitable...

January 2022

January 31, 2022

The Joy Project

Honestly, we're not done with this pandemic. We're not done and we're so tired and...

January 27, 2022

Ordinary Time Still Passes When We’re Not Looking

I am an older parent. People mistake me for a grandmother with my youngest, and...

January 24, 2022

After all the News of Last Week

This weekend served as a palate cleanser...dull, ordinary, uneventful and mercifully, covid free and not...

January 19, 2022

Happiness is a Warm House

We have heat! I don't have Covid! Everybody Mambo! Everybody Mambo GIFfrom Everybody GIFs I...

January 17, 2022

On My UnBucket List

This past week, five of the six of us finally tested negative for Covid. I'm...

January 16, 2022

This Week….

Not Quite Eventful My daughter flew back from Chicago for New Years day. She arrived...

January 09, 2022

The Unexpected Journey

Today, we are watching the Lord of the Rings or will be. The Hobbit (the...

January 08, 2022

Things One Does When One Has Covid

Think about organizing the closet. Think about reading. Think about writing. Clear out summer clothes...

January 06, 2022

500 Words

Runners run, chefs cook, writers write. I've been off my writer's game since before Christmas. ...

December 2021

December 29, 2021

The Shallow Skipping Heart needs to Sink into God’s love

Cancer like any suffering, offers the opportunity to go "deeper and deeper in." For me,...

December 16, 2021

The Illusion of Permanent Pain

Advent reminds us, the reality of life is not death, not pain, not trauma...

December 15, 2021

It’s December 15th, I’m Flunking Advent and Christmas and Let’s Add New Year’s While We’re at It.

It's December 15th, I'm Flunking Advent and Christmas and Let's Add New Year's While We're...

December 10, 2021

The World is a Mess, Time to Start Cleaning

When we clean for the holidays, we suddenly discover all the ways in which we've...

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