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October 2021

October 29, 2021
How we are the both ands, not either   We are to love God first,...
October 26, 2021
Recently, I served as a substitute teacher for an American Sign Language class to help...
October 24, 2021
I'm thinking, we need a do-over of the Year of Mercy.  Because the last one...
October 20, 2021
We were made for love, not use.  This first reality of our being, is the...
October 20, 2021
So I've been through three rounds of chemotherapy, I've lost my hair and now we...
October 19, 2021
For the past few years, I've written a baseball poem about watching the playoffs or...
October 14, 2021
This is something I wrote back in 2015...because I know that all life is precious. ...
October 08, 2021
Back when I was five or six, Mom took me for a necessary vaccination.  I...
October 03, 2021
Recently, I read a post on Zombie Marriages, and reminding people not to go through...
October 02, 2021
Most mornings, I make a list.  If it's on the list, there's a 85 percent...

September 2021

September 30, 2021
This was written back on January 4th of 2008. First, a disclaimer: I don't watch...
September 24, 2021
This is something I wrote back in 2015 on Facebook. I was focusing on the...
September 20, 2021
The major consequence of chemo so far has been flatness.  I wish it meant fitness...
September 18, 2021
Most of us feel something of an indictment whenever Saint James is read during the...
September 12, 2021
There's a lot of stress in the world over the mandate to vaccinate. There's legitimate...
September 04, 2021
Today, my youngest came to me feeling only stress. After she told me all her...

August 2021

August 31, 2021
So I wrote this beautiful post, about the trials of writers block and spiritual dryness,...
August 26, 2021
The major consequence of chemo so far, has been flatness. I wish it meant fitness...
August 22, 2021
It’s a running gag that most Catholics don’t sing at mass. That’s a job for...
August 20, 2021
We all like to think we love our neighbors, but we all struggle with someone,...
August 15, 2021
Being stuck at home and in bed, I spend time I should be resting, scrolling,...
August 12, 2021
When you find out you have cancer but that's all you know...it's a foxhole moment...
August 10, 2021
Today, I went to the surgeon for follow up. Eleven of twenty-three lymph nodes they...
August 09, 2021
Recently, I shared this meme, only to be questioned as to whether it was an...
August 05, 2021
How am I? Well, the title says it all. My brain, my nerves, my body...
August 04, 2021
Having gone through eight confirmations aside from my own, I've done some thinking about how...
August 03, 2021
It's August. It's hot and there is nothing looming on the horizon but the ordinary...
August 03, 2021
The surgery took place on the feast of Saint Mary, Saint Martha and Saint Lazarus....

July 2021

July 29, 2021
It's a grace to recognize gifts. Yesterday, the gift of searing a moment was received....
July 28, 2021
This is both real and tongue in cheek --because I know, there's never an age...
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