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July 2024

July 30, 2024

What We Must Do Going Forward

The state of politics in our nation leaves most sane people exhausted and wondering how...

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...

April 2024

April 14, 2024

Infinitely Loved, Infinitely Valued

I had a beautiful piece about how important each of us is to the whole...

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...

September 2022

September 30, 2022

There Are No Invisible People to God

(Charity) Shutterstock Poor Uneducated Addicted Illegal Mentally ill Handicapped Unborn Homeless Convicted LGBQ+ The list...

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 15, 2022

Finding Your Always

This weekend, since Thursday. I've seen Hamilton and I've been to a funeral for my...

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...

June 2022

June 25, 2022

Starfish

Photo by Mark Walz Most people remember the starfish story. I did some digging on...

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 06, 2022

Becoming Invisible

In my sojourn through Catholic media, I notice a lot of scorn for whosever is...

May 2022

May 23, 2022

Come and Stay

“Come and stay at my house” These are the words of Lydia in today’s first...

May 21, 2022

Not Wading into It

There's lots of ripe fruit for Catholic bloggers right now, I want none of it....

May 13, 2022

Are We Salt of the Earth, or An Assault on the Holy Spirit by Our Acts

To be a disciple is to deny one's self, to discover how dependent on grace...

May 12, 2022

Glimpses

Each month is a different intention (focus) in my prayer life. Since I have ten...

May 09, 2022

The Road to Heaven is Paved with Effort

"The road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions" is not actually something we should...

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...

February 2022

February 24, 2022

Praying for Deep Peace

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

February 07, 2022

Be a Tassel

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

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...

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 16, 2021

The Illusion of Permanent Pain

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

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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