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March 2013

March 08, 2013
In my February 22nd column, Starting Seeds Indoors Part 1, I talked about how to begin...
March 07, 2013
O Jesus, Eternal Priest, keep your priests within the shelter of your Most Sacred Heart,...
March 01, 2013
I looked in awe through the low double-hung window at a winter’s full moon. I...

February 2013

February 28, 2013
O Jesus, Eternal Pontiff, Good Shepherd and Fountain of life, who by the special goodness...
February 22, 2013
Few things produce more hope in the first few hours than a diet and starting...
February 21, 2013
Most gracious Heavenly Father, We thank you for our faithful priests and bishops, whose spiritual...
February 16, 2013
The Blessed Mother statue is only twelve inches tall. Finding a place to store it...
February 08, 2013
Last year for Lent, starting on Ash Wednesday, I began a series of weekly columns...
February 05, 2013
Heavenly Father, Help me to trust that the words you encourage me to write meet...
February 01, 2013
When my friend, Linda, and I bought this house twenty-six years ago we had to...

January 2013

January 25, 2013
Had I still been using a typewriter, there would be a pile of balled up,...
January 18, 2013
I love seed catalogs, they evoke such hope! I peek at them quickly as they...
January 11, 2013
It was another one of those sleepless nights. I was in my upstairs flat, a...
January 04, 2013
Looking ahead into the new year of 2013, I've pulled a reflection from my latest...

December 2012

December 28, 2012
My grandparents were born in 1896 and 1901. Their families immigrated to Detroit when they...
December 21, 2012
During the Christmas season poinsettias, Norfolk pines, Christmas cactus, cyclamen and rosemary are often purchased...
December 15, 2012
Its Christmas time and I love how the fragrance and beauty of evergreens adds to celebrating...
December 07, 2012
The New Evangelization, media promoting the Church, bishops and bloggers, Vatican web presence…a Papal Twitter...
December 07, 2012
I know…this is supposed to be about Christmas greens…next week, I promise. I’ve had several...
December 03, 2012
This tree has its own familiar presence in our lives. In the tradition of the...

November 2012

November 30, 2012
I’m on a mission to dethrone the poinsettia as the Christmas plant in Catholic homes and...
November 25, 2012
Elizabeth asked...in a couple hundred words or less to tell of the cloud of witnesses by...
November 20, 2012
From early November until Thanksgiving, I’m usually bundled up puttering in unheated garages or pole...
November 17, 2012
The black tree limbs are naked of leaves and their outline contrasts against the heavy...
November 09, 2012
In the Adoration Chapel the lights are low. On the altar the oil candles flicker...
November 03, 2012
The large fox squirrel is gathering and burying a cache of nuts. Making short raspy...

October 2012

October 25, 2012
I’m really not very political and just barely politically correct.  But still, I wonder what...
October 19, 2012
Gardening at home is a private thing; it’s when I look really bad and after...
October 12, 2012
I look at my gardens in despair. The seeds of fox-tail grass and tall Queen Ann's...
October 05, 2012
I feel like a little violet among the mighty oaks. I am delighted and honored...
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