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January 2023

January 01, 2023
Resolve to be kinder. Resolve to let yourself rest. Resolve to take care of those...

December 2022

December 27, 2022
Every once in a while, someone asks this question in real life or online.   "Do...
December 19, 2022
Photo by Susanne Jutzeler, suju-foto  We are five days from Christmas, and no matter what...
December 06, 2022
We've had saints give us descriptions of Hell. Few of us have considered the spiritual...
December 05, 2022
Christmas Day is in nineteen days.   Cue panic. My kids created a contest for the...

November 2022

November 25, 2022
Is always the same. Stay home. Do not under any circumstances cook or shop. Make...
November 25, 2022
One thing I love about being Catholic, is the grounded nature of our faith. It...
November 17, 2022
I know, I wrote that last time...but we've spent the past week dealing with an...
November 07, 2022
I'm not putting a picture here of a messy world or people screaming at each...
November 02, 2022
Some of you know I teach high school English.  Others now know.  I have eighty...

October 2022

October 17, 2022
The Blessed Mother longs to talk with us and listen.  She doesn't mess around.  I...
October 13, 2022
We are always on the road that goes ever ever on, and it is always...
October 09, 2022
  Yesterday I sat at a meeting discussing donuts and flyers. The sharing of labors...

September 2022

September 30, 2022
(Charity) Shutterstock Poor Uneducated Addicted Illegal Mentally ill Handicapped Unborn Homeless Convicted LGBQ+ The list...
September 25, 2022
This is not ten truths and a lie...this is the last two weeks going backwards...and...
September 14, 2022
Today I'm over at the National Catholic Register with a book review of Fr. Livio...
September 06, 2022
These days, I spend some time with the Blessed Sacrament every school day. Yesterday, the...
September 01, 2022
Having multiple members of Gen Z and Gen Alpha in the household, I've learned that...

August 2022

August 29, 2022
Last year, when school started, it felt as though I had classes of pet rocks....
August 22, 2022
I have moaned about summer ending, but today seeing my classroom and all the people,...
August 20, 2022
Today, we drove to DC and did a tourist thing.  We  went to the top...
August 19, 2022
I have been wondering what I should do, to be more what God calls and...
August 16, 2022
Attention retailers! It is August 16th. There are still days of summer to be seized,...
August 15, 2022
This weekend, since Thursday. I've seen Hamilton and I've been to a funeral for my...
August 10, 2022
Having gone to confession today, I recognized that I needed to yell at God.   Not...
August 08, 2022
So I have a piece over at Catholicmom.com on being Good Fruit. Enjoy! Good Fruit...
August 07, 2022
Today, my heart feels alternatively like a stone so heavy it will fall out of...
August 06, 2022
Reports of my blog atrophying into internet nothingness are incorrect.  I'd blame August sloth but...

July 2022

July 27, 2022
Monday night, Paul decided sleep was for the weak.  He started singing around ten o'clock. ...
July 11, 2022
I started writing back in 2004. I wrote for Lisa Hendey at Catholicmom.com from the...
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