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June 2024

June 24, 2024

We Can Always Learn More from Being on the Boat

In the course of writing since 2004, I've told some stories more than once, always...

April 2024

April 07, 2024

Should Do Something

After Easter, the apostles sat around in the upper room knowing they ought to be...

March 2023

March 05, 2023

No, I Haven’t Given Up Writing for Lent

However, I am down an arm. Currently, my left arm is in a cast compression...

December 2022

December 05, 2022

On the Ninth Day of Advent…

Christmas Day is in nineteen days. Cue panic. My kids created a contest for the...

November 2022

November 25, 2022

How We Are Always Both And

One thing I love about being Catholic, is the grounded nature of our faith. It...

November 07, 2022

Why We Should Be Thankful

I'm not putting a picture here of a messy world or people screaming at each...

October 2022

October 17, 2022

The Everyday Wonder of the Rosary

The Blessed Mother longs to talk with us and listen. She doesn't mess around. I...

September 2022

September 14, 2022

Book Review over at the Register and Online Evangelization

Today I'm over at the National Catholic Register with a book review of Fr. Livio...

September 06, 2022

Ask, God is Always Listening to Our Hearts

These days, I spend some time with the Blessed Sacrament every school day. Yesterday, the...

August 2022

August 19, 2022

So Now What

I have been wondering what I should do, to be more what God calls and...

August 10, 2022

Sometimes You Need to Yell at God, but Don’t Worry, He can Take it.

Having gone to confession today, I recognized that I needed to yell at God. Not...

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...

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 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 10, 2022

I finished Chemo!

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

December 2021

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...

December 09, 2021

Small Success Thursday Post

So yesterday, we celebrated the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. In light of a mid...

November 2021

November 08, 2021

The Weight of a Millstone

We hear the Gospels but we've heard them so often, sometimes we've lost our imaginative...

October 2021

October 14, 2021

Making the World More Welcoming

This is something I wrote back in 2015...because I know that all life is precious. ...

September 2021

September 30, 2021

Retro Saturday: Having a Youtube Moment, and How Not To…

This was written back on January 4th of 2008. First, a disclaimer: I don't watch...

August 2021

August 31, 2021

Writers’ Block, Cancer, Spiritual Dryness and Me

So I wrote this beautiful post, about the trials of writers block and spiritual dryness,...

August 12, 2021

Asking for the Miraculous

When you find out you have cancer but that's all you know...it's a foxhole moment...

July 2021

July 29, 2021

Today is a Perfect Day

It's a grace to recognize gifts. Yesterday, the gift of searing a moment was received....

July 28, 2021

TEN RULES FOR WHILE MOMMY IS RECOVERING

This is both real and tongue in cheek --because I know, there's never an age...

July 27, 2021

One Day Until Surgery

I have one days before surgery and I'll admit it right now, I'm scared. It...

July 10, 2021

“Ask the Lord for a Sign…”

Sometimes, you need to dare in prayer. God doesn't mind. In fact, He delights when...

June 2021

June 29, 2021

We All Want What Isn’t Yet, to be Better

Today, the words that fell on my heart, were we are more than the sum...

June 10, 2021

AN HONEST POST

IT'S SHOUTY THURSDAY... WHY? BECAUSE YOU'LL READ THIS AND IT'S CATHARTIC TO TYPE IN ALL...

June 01, 2021

Being Both And in the Face of Things

One of my coping methods is stupid humor. So originally I titled this piece, Cancer to...

May 2021

May 21, 2021

One Splinter at a Time

A few years ago, when my life felt awash with babies, I spent much of...

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