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How do You Manage Teens? You Love Them

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My Annual Lent, Lent, and More Lent Ideas Post

I love Lent. Every year, I love thinking about what to do, and how the...

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The World Keeps Thinking It Knows But it Does Not

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Missing…The Writing Fairy

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Our God, The Approachable King

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Resolutions

Resolve to be kinder. Resolve to let yourself rest. Resolve to take care of those...

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December 27, 2022

Do You Really Have Ten Kids?

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What Have We Been Doing?

I know, I wrote that last time...but we've spent the past week dealing with an...

November 02, 2022

Where did She Go?

Some of you know I teach high school English. Others now know. I have eighty...

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October 13, 2022

The Road We Take

We are always on the road that goes ever ever on, and it is always...

October 09, 2022

On Suffering and Hope and Forever

Yesterday I sat at a meeting discussing donuts and flyers. The sharing of labors...

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September 25, 2022

In the Past Ten Days…I’ve…

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Pinky Promises, Pie, and Fingers in Your Eye

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What is New in 2022

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Looks Shiny, Feels Real

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So We Gather the Bones of Summer

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Still Summer

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August 08, 2022

Over at Catholicmom.com

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July 11, 2022

And Now, I Know Why We’re Not Going Anywhere…until I am Not In Charge

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The Great Reset

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Sunday, Sundae, Sun Day Someday

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And Maybe That’s Why…

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Dog Days Before We Get to August

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What it Means to Be Pro-life

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The Tiny Whispering Memory

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The Vanishing Act of Childhood

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May 27, 2022

My Summer Book List

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May 25, 2022

Would That This is the Last Time

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May 23, 2022

Come and Stay

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So Yesterday…I Tempted Fate

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