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April 2026

April 28, 2026
  The world seems primed to demand vengance.  No one wants the peace the King...
April 11, 2026
Life is Bigger than Our Plans Like many around the world, I found myself riveted...
April 09, 2026
It's been a busy two weeks, with Palm Sunday, Spring Break, Easter, two birthdays, a...

March 2026

March 30, 2026
We all know God is love.  Life is how we come to know more fully,...
March 25, 2026
We are always in a state of decay, from the moment of conception forward, we...
March 23, 2026
Going to mass today, my daughter cantored the mass.   My Guardian Angel decided it was...
March 17, 2026
When we fast, we should wash our faces and smile.  It is part of the...
March 12, 2026
We've all heard the story of Mary and Joseph finding Jesus after three days, but...
March 06, 2026
I spent a lot of yesterday, just feeling the weight of twelve years minus my...

February 2026

February 18, 2026
So today is Ash Wednesday.  The day holds a lot of memories for me, including...
February 17, 2026
Over the past thirty years, one could call me a news junkie. I listened to...

January 2026

January 30, 2026
Christ on the cross offers us redemption, and invites us to particpate in the salvation...
January 27, 2026
The whole neighborhood is a sheet of eight inch ice, and the internet is coated...
January 02, 2026
When a theme keeps popping up in my head, I know it's the Holy Spirit...

December 2025

December 31, 2025
Need to resolve to do some writing this year upcoming.  Have been, but it's been...
December 04, 2025
So yesterday was the anniversary of my mom's birth, and death.  One year ago today,...
December 03, 2025
A friend and fellow mother of many and writer, posted about praying this Advent, for...

November 2025

November 29, 2025
Perhaps no modern story tells the reality of what a soul should see, what a...
November 25, 2025
When people talk about celebrating Thanksgiving, they talk about who is coming or who came...
November 23, 2025
So I had a piece published Friday at the Catholic Standard: The Heart of Thanksgiving....
November 19, 2025
In this day and age, when students google and copy whatever AI tells them from...
November 18, 2025
It's four o'clock in the morning.  I should be sleeping. My thoughts falling down the...
November 09, 2025
All of life is preparation for the final four things: death, judgement, heaven or hell....

October 2025

October 15, 2025
We all have songs we love, that convey with them a whole host of memory. ...
October 03, 2025
So I have a piece over at the Catholic Standard this week from the experience...

September 2025

September 24, 2025
"Not now.  Too busy.  I'm tired.  Tomorrow."  These are the words we say when we...
September 14, 2025
Sitting in the pew during mass, weeping over hurts that bubble up, I found myself...
September 06, 2025
Any time someone does wrong, there is a temptation to retaliate. It's human nature, to...
September 02, 2025
The shooting in Minnesota is, was, and shall remain a tragedy. The shooter must face...

August 2025

August 28, 2025
These days, I value ordinary conversations. They're becoming an endangered species.  I used to listen...
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