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Gather Ye Rosebuds
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It’s Mostly Mowing
I’m composing this in my head as I sit on the riding lawn mower, passing...
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The House That Grandma Built
“Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it.” The house...
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May 25, 2021
A Short Spirituality of Naps
My seven-year-old daughter balked. “Do I really have to rest?” “Yes,” I said. “This is...
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Cork Board-May 22, Vigil of Pentecost
"Be glad, O sons of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord, your God; for he...
May 18, 2021
Why Don’t They Just Move?
This essay ran originally in the August 29, 2020 edition of the Sedalia Democrat. It...
May 11, 2021
People at Home
Almost nobody I knew was a “stay-at-home-mom.” I don’t believe I even heard the term...
May 08, 2021
Cork Board May 8
"May, with alle thy floures and thy grene, Welcome be thou, faire, fresshe May!" -Chaucer...
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Plant the Asparagus
This essay ran originally in the May 2, 2020 edition of the Sedalia Democrat. I love...
May 01, 2021
Peter’s Mother-in-Law and the Dignity of Work
Feast of St. Joseph the Worker/May Day May 1, 2021 Old farmers do not begin...
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April 28, 2021
The Day The Pigs Would Die
My father was sober, running his hand through his hair. His face was covered with...
April 20, 2021
Blackberry Winter: The Folklore of Spring Snow
Here in Green Ridge, the snow has been falling thickly since just after dawn. The...
April 13, 2021
God the Child in Spring
In Eastertide, God is no longer willing to restrain his abundance. It pours out on...
April 07, 2021
All Creation Rightly Gives Him Praise
The doctor was a tall, lean, eccentric man. No one knew quite what his medical...
March 2021
March 27, 2021
Cork Board – March 27
Willow trees are greening, robins are mating, and the Worm Moon is waxing full this...
March 23, 2021
Lent And Spring Fever
We who live in temperate climates are privileged to experience God’s love in relation to...
March 16, 2021
Small Towns, Kinship and the Body of Christ
“If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.”...
March 12, 2021
Cork Board – March 12, 2021
Spring is sprung here in Green Ridge! In the past week, we heard the first...
March 09, 2021
Who is a Traditional Woman?
In the past decade, many Catholics have been looking back to generations long-gone for guidance...
March 05, 2021
Cork Board-March 5th, 2021
In my past, they were all over town. They hung in the entryway of the...
March 02, 2021
On Abraham, arson and loving your neighbors
It has been a hard weekend in this corner of Green Ridge. On Saturday night,...
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February 26, 2021
Welcome to Green Ridge!
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