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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...

May 2024

May 13, 2024

The Feast of Fatima

For those who are not dialed into the Catholic world, today is the 107th anniversary...

March 2024

March 19, 2024

Me and My Big Fat Writing Heart

So sometimes I will wake in the early mornings and the words won't leave me...

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...

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 02, 2022

Ash Wednesday Reality

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

February 2022

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...

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,...

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...

November 06, 2021

Going to the Well, Admitting I’m Thirsty

The problem with being a writer is, you have your past words to remind you...

October 2021

October 24, 2021

Put Down the Rocks!

I'm thinking, we need a do-over of the Year of Mercy. Because the last one...

October 08, 2021

Spirograph Brave

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

October 03, 2021

How to Make Sure You’re Living

Recently, I read a post on Zombie Marriages, and reminding people not to go through...

September 2021

September 20, 2021

Journey on the Flat Road

The major consequence of chemo so far has been flatness. I wish it meant fitness...

August 2021

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...

August 10, 2021

Reception is Lousy

Today, I went to the surgeon for follow up. Eleven of twenty-three lymph nodes they...

August 09, 2021

Mask Wearing, Humility and Virtue

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

August 05, 2021

BOTH AND UP DOWN FLAILING LOST RESTING WONDERING STUCK WAITING

How am I? Well, the title says it all. My brain, my nerves, my body...

August 03, 2021

Why All This Stuff Matters

It's August. It's hot and there is nothing looming on the horizon but the ordinary...

August 03, 2021

Okay…I’m Sort Of Back

The surgery took place on the feast of Saint Mary, Saint Martha and Saint Lazarus....

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 11, 2021

The Power of Witness

We took the kids swimming this Sunday at the pool with the high diving board. ...

June 2021

June 16, 2021

I have a feature over at OSV

I wrote this reflection shortly after discovering I have cancer. We are still in the...

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 23, 2021

My Favorite Feast

It's no secret. I've always loved Pentecost. The dissent of the Holy Spirit is my...

May 21, 2021

One Splinter at a Time

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

May 13, 2021

The Inbetween Spaces of Life

We've spent the past year or so in the inbetween state of Covid is ever...

April 2021

April 30, 2021

On the Plate

She knew from my face. A good friend of mine, who happens to be a...

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