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August 20, 2024

Full of Light, Hope and Promise

Today, we packed off our seventh. We've done this before, but now it feels closer...

August 07, 2024

Check Up on the Check List!

At the start of every summer, I make a list of fun things to do...

July 2024

July 26, 2024

One Day, Two Takes, Ten Task, All Good

To keep me on my toes, my writing coach asked we write a short about...

July 10, 2024

Mass Appeal of Mass for Real

During the pandemic, we had no option but the virtual mass and it was a...

July 09, 2024

Prayer is Always Heart to Heart, So Pray for Our Nation

The other day, I read an Op-ed in the Washington Post, in which the author begged...

July 07, 2024

I Turned 58, so far it’s Great!

On July 3rd, we celebrated my fifty-eighth year of life. This past year, I've struggled...

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...

May 2024

May 26, 2024

Graduation Speeches

"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here." --President Abraham Lincoln...

May 25, 2024

HAPPY SUMMER! 100 Ways to Make this Season Happy and Holy.

I love summer. It's my favorite season, all of it. Every year we make a...

March 2024

March 28, 2024

Ideas for this Holy Triduum If You’re Homebound

Now this post would have been really timely to present back in 2020 when everyone...

March 13, 2024

Lent…and Spring…and Barriers to Being What We should

L Whenever we encounter God, and recognize the reality, we are challenged. Christ always nvites...

February 2024

February 19, 2024

Me and My Big Fat Blue Smurfing Ego

As followers of this blog know, I teach high school English. Part of teaching involves...

March 2023

March 14, 2023

How do You Manage Teens? You Love Them

Photo of us spending quality time with the teens --as we took everyone to see...

March 06, 2023

Movies For All Seasons

With ten kids, we've seen our share of kid-friendly movies. Once-a-week movie night can become...

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...

August 2022

August 19, 2022

So Now What

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

August 07, 2022

Pillars

Today, my heart feels alternatively like a stone so heavy it will fall out of...

August 06, 2022

Back on the Writing Pony after Falling off for what feels like Forever

Reports of my blog atrophying into internet nothingness are incorrect. I'd blame August sloth but...

July 2022

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...

June 2022

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 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...

March 2022

March 12, 2022

Where Did She Go?

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

February 2022

February 10, 2022

I finished Chemo!

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

January 2022

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 09, 2022

The Unexpected Journey

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

December 2021

December 06, 2021

Second Week of Advent…Now What?

The second week of Advent is when my sixth child received his name. We'd gone...

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