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October 2026

October 07, 2026

Today Again, I Restart

Who we are often centers around what we do. This week, as I sat resting...

February 2026

February 17, 2026

We Are Being Given Skim Milk

Over the past thirty years, one could call me a news junkie. I listened to...

December 2025

December 04, 2025

Perfect Timing

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

November 2025

November 19, 2025

What Ails Me about AI

In this day and age, when students google and copy whatever AI tells them from...

August 2025

August 11, 2025

35 Years and Counting

Today, thirty-five years ago, I married the love of my life. I know it's been...

August 04, 2025

Start Asking

Last week, we heard my favorite Gospel passage. “Ask and you shall receive, seek and...

April 2025

April 14, 2025

What to Do This Holy Week

I'd decided not to listen to the news this week, in an attempt to turn...

April 07, 2025

God’s Glorious Word

If there is a way to misunderstand God, we in our freewill and predisposition to...

March 2025

March 19, 2025

Response to the Hard of the World

We live in difficult times, but in truth, we have always lived in difficult times...

January 2025

January 01, 2025

January 1st, Restart on 2025

So I just came back from a ten day trek to Texas and back to...

December 2024

December 08, 2024

Grief Makes You Stupid

The phrase, "How are you doing?" seems so innocent, so simple, so straightforward. It is...

November 2024

November 05, 2024

A Prayer Before The Election

That we remember that each person in this land, is our brother or sister in...

October 2024

October 21, 2024

It Always Gets Better

In August, my husband and I attended a concert as part of our anniversary celebration. ...

September 2024

September 28, 2024

What God does NOT promise

Our God is Love. God promises us His love, every day and always. However, in...

September 12, 2024

I Need to Hear This

A current meme starts with "I don't know who needs to hear this..." and then...

September 05, 2024

Can’t Teach What You Don’t Do and Don’t Love

It's not entirely true. One can learn a discipline and convey it to others, but...

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...

July 2024

July 09, 2024

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...

October 2023

October 22, 2023

Praying and Working for Peace takes Courage

We cannot see what is happening in the world as a comic book, with one...

August 2023

August 23, 2023

What is My Life’s Theme?

Next week, the new school year starts. I'm not ready. As such, we've spent this...

August 13, 2023

How To Grow Deeper In Love with Jesus

Spend more time with Him, and you will find yourself much less interesting. Adoration always...

May 2023

May 24, 2023

Praying for Everyone

Our lives seem very frail these days. The news tells me every day, of how...

April 2023

April 15, 2023

Divine Mercy is the Perfect Counter to the Fallen World

Do we forgive others? Do we really renounce our requirement of retribution, of revenge?...

December 2022

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...

August 2022

August 10, 2022

Sometimes You Need to Yell at God, but Don’t Worry, He can Take it.

Having gone to confession today, I recognized that I needed to yell at God. Not...

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...

June 07, 2022

We Are Not Called to Win

Just a reminder to all who want to follow Christ, who want to be disciples. ...

June 02, 2022

Part of Why I Write is to Find Out What is Churning in My Brain…

In the past week, I've been to an in person graduation, a virtual graduation, watched...

May 2022

May 17, 2022

Over at Our Sunday Visitor This Week

The beginnings of thoughts on the horrific shooting and violent deaths of ten people in...

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...

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