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May 2024

May 25, 2024
I love summer. It's my favorite season, all of it.  Every year we make a...
May 15, 2024
Quick!  This is a test. Without googling, consulting your 8th grader preparing for Confirmation or...
May 13, 2024
For those who are not dialed into the Catholic world, today is the 107th anniversary...
May 02, 2024
Congratulations! You're confirmed. You’re considered an adult in the Catholic Church now. Feel on fire...

April 2024

April 24, 2024
I need to write.  Writers do that, every day. I’ve been managing as many words...
April 14, 2024
I had a beautiful piece about how important each of us is to the whole...
April 07, 2024
After Easter, the apostles sat around in the upper room knowing they ought to be...
April 03, 2024
Happy Easter!  He is risen! Now what? Easter is fifty days.  However, unlike Lent (40...

March 2024

March 28, 2024
Now this post would have been really timely to present back in 2020 when everyone...
March 26, 2024
I'm Catholic, I'm passionate about my faith, but Spy Wednesday is a weird name. So...
March 19, 2024
So sometimes I will wake in the early mornings and the words won't leave me...
March 13, 2024
L Whenever we encounter God, and recognize the reality, we are challenged.  Christ always nvites...
March 06, 2024
We live in an age that understands not ceasing.  The internet and television stay open...
March 02, 2024
Lent is a time for reflection on how far we are from God.  Fasting is...

February 2024

February 26, 2024
Painting by Katie Hall back when she was Katie Hall (my cousin).  It's the grotto...
February 19, 2024
As followers of this blog know, I teach high school English.  Part of teaching involves...
February 12, 2024
It's almost time for Lent!  Are you ready? Over the years, I've written pieces for...
February 11, 2024
By now, scads of Catholic internet ink has been spilled explaining why February 14th being...
February 04, 2024
Back in 2007, my oldest participated in a contest which pitted teams from Catholic schools...

December 2023

December 29, 2023
A famous soccer player hurt themselves six minutes into their final game and declared this...
December 05, 2023
Recently, I visited with a bright young woman who is in graduate school and working...

November 2023

November 04, 2023
In the world of nothing important has happened...Bank of America, US Bank, Truist, Chase and...

October 2023

October 25, 2023
The other day I talked about prayer and being a witness taking courage.  Then, I...
October 22, 2023
We cannot see what is happening in the world as a comic book, with one...
October 21, 2023
For the past three months, I've been adding doing one thing for my health each...
October 05, 2023
For the past five years, I've taught ninth grade.  One thing we spend a great...

September 2023

September 30, 2023
In the world of nothing important has happened...Bank of America, US Bank, Truist, Chase and...
September 12, 2023
There are days when you get up and go and go and go and go...
September 08, 2023
I'd vowed to write five hundred words each day but life got in the way. ...
September 06, 2023
Today, I know it wasn't so hot one could fry eggs on the car, but...
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