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March 2022

March 16, 2022
“She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything...
March 12, 2022
Credit to Lokman Sevim Sorry I've been awol.  In rebooting my computer, I needed to...
March 03, 2022
Wrote this last Friday before I hopped on a plane to visit family in Texas...
March 02, 2022
We are an Easter People who remember, we are also dust.  We are both and. ...
March 01, 2022
First, a very good piece by my friend, Simcha: Go Ahead, Give up Chocolate for...

February 2022

February 27, 2022
Image Credit: Gregory Gresko The man embracing the foot of the cross in the Ukraine...
February 24, 2022
Seriously, pray for peace.  Pray for the world.  Pray for all in the path of...
February 20, 2022
So this week, Jesus asks us to love our enemies. Who are our enemies?   Those...
February 16, 2022
This week, while at adoration, I asked God if He still wanted me to be...
February 15, 2022
Saturday, Paul's team played basketball.  He loves the game.  He understands two things: shooting and...
February 10, 2022
Since you folks have followed this on Patheos, you deserve an update. I FINISHED MY...
February 09, 2022
So I love watching the Olympics.  Summer, Winter, it doesn't matter, I love the epic...
February 07, 2022
We've all heard the Gospel so many times, we no longer hear what it says,...
February 05, 2022
When I write my blog, it isn't a promise that everything will be precise, but...
February 02, 2022
Given the way playoffs have finished the past few weeks, it might be more profitable...

January 2022

January 31, 2022
Honestly, we're not done with this pandemic.  We're not done and we're so tired and...
January 27, 2022
I am an older parent.  People mistake me for a grandmother with my youngest, and...
January 24, 2022
This weekend served as a palate cleanser...dull, ordinary, uneventful and mercifully, covid free and not...
January 19, 2022
We have heat!  I don't have Covid!  Everybody Mambo! Everybody Mambo GIFfrom Everybody GIFs I...
January 17, 2022
This past week, five of the six of us finally tested negative for Covid. I'm...
January 16, 2022
Not Quite Eventful My daughter flew back from Chicago for New Years day. She arrived...
January 09, 2022
Today, we are watching the Lord of the Rings or will be.  The Hobbit (the...
January 08, 2022
Think about organizing the closet.  Think about reading.  Think about writing.  Clear out summer clothes...
January 06, 2022
Runners run,  chefs cook, writers write.  I've been off my writer's game since before Christmas. ...

December 2021

December 29, 2021
Cancer like any suffering, offers the opportunity to go "deeper and deeper in."  For me,...
December 16, 2021
 Advent reminds us, the reality of life is not death, not pain, not trauma...
December 15, 2021
It's December 15th, I'm Flunking Advent and Christmas and Let's Add New Year's While We're...
December 10, 2021
When we clean for the holidays, we suddenly discover all the ways in which we've...
December 09, 2021
So yesterday, we celebrated the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.  In light of a mid...
December 06, 2021
The second week of Advent is when my sixth child received his name.  We'd gone...
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