We’ve all heard the Gospel so many times, we no longer hear what it says, what it promises, what it reveals. Two weeks ago, we heard the story of Jesus raising the little girl of twelve from death for an official who came and asked. In the midst of the story, we heard of a little miracle: A woman suffering hemorrhages for twelve years came up behind him and touched the tassel* on... Read more
When I write my blog, it isn’t a promise that everything will be precise, but it will ring true. I use my blog to tell stories, to preserve memories and often, to discover what it is is I actually think. It’s been my process, my means of discovering how to reflect more deeply on the every day and what it means than I otherwise would. However, I have a history, of getting proficient at things and stopping…be it piano, be... Read more
Given the way playoffs have finished the past few weeks, it might be more profitable for the NFL as a whole, to embrace this sort of marketing. Sudden Death This weekend and everyone to come…until Opening Day of Baseball! Kickers are becoming the superstars of this new sporting world, kicking field goals sixty plus yards, blind folded, in minus fifteen degrees with a seventy-mile per hour wind and a full pass rush. Short of having drones airdropping receivers into coverage... Read more
Honestly, we’re not done with this pandemic. We’re not done and we’re so tired and so eager to be done, we are ready to just dismiss any new information that says “We’re not done yet.” Our desire to endure any more quarantine, any more shut downs, any more precautions has reached the beyond saturation point. However…the disease does not care that we have fatigue born of enduring Covid lock downs. In the past year, when we’ve opened up, I’ve come... Read more
I am an older parent. People mistake me for a grandmother with my youngest, and my older ones for the parents. It shocks me to learn that I am so much older than everyone else as I discovered while chatting as our daughters played basketball. The thing about having children, is at some point, you stop wanting them to get older or at the very least, you want to stop getting older, so that you attack showing the world to... Read more
This weekend served as a palate cleanser…dull, ordinary, uneventful and mercifully, covid free and not freezing. We went to the late mass and as it happened, my child who comes but does not believe, always listens to the homily. So it kills me when the priest meanders or turns the Gospel into an opportunity to pound a particular point not connected with the Gospel or any of the readings. He listens. He catches it. He feels justified in laughing at... Read more
We have heat! I don’t have Covid! Everybody Mambo! Everybody Mambo GIFfrom Everybody GIFs I get to teach tomorrow. My daughter turns eleven! We planned a party for her and I sent invitations. (It’s an accomplishment in the week). Now I just have to get all the grades done so I can manage all the responsibilities of life that a cold house chased out of my brain. What I love is whenever I lay down the law in my class... Read more
This past week, five of the six of us finally tested negative for Covid. I’m the lone hold out. To keep life interesting, on Thursday, one of the two furnaces in the house quit. Service men came out and fixed it just in time for my husband to come home. The other furnace quit the next day. Naturally, it was the weekend and a winter storm loomed. Let me tell you what happens when only one furnace works. The kids... Read more
Not Quite Eventful My daughter flew back from Chicago for New Years day. She arrived three hours late owing to the need to thaw and de-ice the plane twice before taking off. Greeted by freezing rain falling sideways and her mom and one sister, we made it home before the rain became snow and all of Northern Virginia, DC and bordering counties of Maryland came to a stand still for the next four days. We’d secured her a hotel room... Read more
Today, we are watching the Lord of the Rings or will be. The Hobbit (the first one) came on, and we’re watching and I’m already thinking of starting the true series when it is over. There is enough there to remind me of what we loved, while enough bloat to remind me of why this series (the second trilogy that was the prequel), failed to capture the heart. Not enough of this… Too much that felt like I was watching... Read more
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