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August 2024

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...

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...

August 2022

August 07, 2022

Pillars

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

October 2021

October 08, 2021

Spirograph Brave

Back when I was five or six, Mom took me for a necessary vaccination.  I...

August 2021

August 09, 2021

Mask Wearing, Humility and Virtue

Recently, I shared this meme, only to be questioned as to whether it was an...

July 2021

July 20, 2021

Why and How the Domestic Church that is the Family Matters

Photo by Daria Shevtsova from PexelsThere’s a commercial for a famous brand of macaroni and cheese, where the...

April 2021

April 28, 2021

Relics

Truckie Day is coming! We're preparing for "Truckie" day. I first created this tradition of...

April 25, 2021

Dear Daughter getting Confirmed…

You already have the gifts of courage, listening, understanding, humor, intellect and kindness.  You show...

April 21, 2021

The Beauty of a Bedtime Story

My favorite thing to do with my children as a parent, is read them stories. ...

April 09, 2021

Movies, Editing and Parenting Doesn’t Age Well

We've been watching old movies and I've discovered, movies I loved, now feel dull, and...

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