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October 2018

October 23, 2018

The Power of Choice

It's 2018 and all around us, we hear about how we are free to make...

August 2018

August 20, 2018

What Sex Abuse is About

Along with most American Catholics, I am in shock, anger and pain over the things...

June 2018

June 11, 2018

Homily for the Funeral Mass of Anthony Gallegos

Below is the homily from my son Anthony's funeral Mass. In case you don't know,...

June 08, 2018

Random Thoughts On Suicide

First, if you are suffering from depression or suicidal thoughts, seek help. Go to a...

March 2018

March 02, 2018

In The Cool of The Evening

The other evening my husband and I were driving to the grocery store as...

February 2018

February 26, 2018

March 8th is Quickly Approaching: Request and A Book Review

As many of you who are regular readers of mine know, March 8th will be...

December 2017

December 11, 2017

Book Review: The Peace of Christmas, Quiet Reflections from Pope Francis

If you are like me, this short Advent doesn't seem like it is enough...

October 2017

October 18, 2017

Keeping Hope Alive

I never sold or did drugs but I dated drug dealers. I hung out in...

September 2017

September 20, 2017

If I Can Give One Piece of Parenting Advice

I see discussions where parents are all trying to figure out how to keep their...

August 2017

August 23, 2017

Interview With Shaun Morgan From Seether About Suicide

I met Shaun Morgan, the lead singer of Seether, in 2005 at Hooters in Amarillo,...

July 2017

July 07, 2017

A Note From Way Back Here

I was just a child myself waiting on my baby to be born. I had...

February 2017

February 28, 2017

Book Review: Lent with Saint Teresa of Calcutta

Happy Fat Tuesday everyone! Every year I get a stack of books ready for Lent....

February 17, 2017

Rejecting God

It's no secret to anyone who has been reading my blog these past ten months...

November 2016

November 08, 2016

I am Pro-Life, I voted for Hillary

My original plan for today was to drink and wait for Jesus. I was not...

November 07, 2016

The Dark Night of Life

I know that everyone is ready to lay around in despair over the election results...

October 2016

October 11, 2016

Did I Die? Let Me Count The Ways

By now most of you must have heard the leaked tape where Donald Trump explains...

August 2016

August 25, 2016

Catholic Writing, Brands and Authenticity

Waiting tables is a story of how different things are "behind the scenes" verses what...

August 09, 2016

One of the Stages of Grief: Anger

I am over at Aleteia talking about grief and how I used to try and...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

So I lied to Ya’ll

Awhile back I wrote a blog post saying that I have no parenting advice. Well,...

July 24, 2016

Sometimes God Does Not Let Things Go

I'm going back to waiting tables. I am not really sure how it happened really,...

June 2016

June 17, 2016

Absent Fathers

A few weeks ago I sat in child support court for almost an entire day...

June 15, 2016

Happiness in a Depressing World

I kept reading people's opinions about the Stanford rape case to the point of having...

June 05, 2016

Hotel CaliFacebook

You can log in, but you can never leave. That is exactly how I feel...

May 2016

May 26, 2016

Life: the Gift that Bites You in the Ass

You know how I said that I used to think I knew everything about parenting?...

May 25, 2016

Friendships: the Casualty of Crisis

Here are just a few of the issues that I have been dealing with in...

May 24, 2016

Through the Clouds

On Sunday I wrote a blog post abut how I didn't see how God is...

May 22, 2016

The Root of It All

When I was younger I went to a Baptist Church. I really did come to...

May 10, 2016

Taste & See: Help with the Pollution of Noise

When I first got the review copy for Taste & See by Ginny Kubitz Moyer for...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

Things I’m Over

#1 The election Look, Hillary is going to win the election and I've known this...

April 12, 2016

Today’s Reason for Not Reading Amoris Laetitia

So you know how the Pope released a document about how to love each other...