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December 04, 2025

Perfect Timing

So yesterday was the anniversary of my mom's birth, and death.  One year ago today,...

December 05, 2023

Fear of Being Found Wanting

Recently, I visited with a bright young woman who is in graduate school and working...

December 06, 2022

Imagining the Reality We’d face without the Promise and Reality of Christmas

We've had saints give us descriptions of Hell. Few of us have considered the spiritual...

December 05, 2022

On the Ninth Day of Advent…

Christmas Day is in nineteen days.   Cue panic. My kids created a contest for the...

December 09, 2021

Small Success Thursday Post

So yesterday, we celebrated the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.  In light of a mid...

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...

November 2021

November 29, 2021

The Lie of the Incurable Nature of Us

In the parking lot after the first Sunday of Advent,  my teen saw a car...

October 2021

October 29, 2021

So I Started This Morning a Beautiful Poetic Post About…

How we are the both ands, not either   We are to love God first,...

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