Wife, mother, blogger, Catholic ministry. I love to garden even when it goes wrong. Same with writing (and we know it can go wrong.) Believing that God is present in all of it.
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So my kids are in the kitchen carving thier pumpkins and I came online to look at the right way to roast the seeds when I decided….hmmmm….I wonder if there are any fun videos about Halloween and Catholicism! Of course there are and they come from that rediculously available and creative website www.BustedHalo.com! Such a…
Glimpsing God
My friend Helen has suffered a second stroke in as many months. I was blessed enough to see her a couple of weeks ago being her perky self. Helen is in her mid-seventies and has been enveloped by the Gospel most of her adult life. She is the epitome of Christian dedication and it is…
Ocean Rocks
Rocks. I have been obsessed with them in one way or another since the beginning of the pandemic. I am not sure why, suddenly, I am in love with rocks. Well, suddenly isn’t accurate. There was that geology class in college and there is a need to connect with random rocks that began at the…
Lenten Retreat
We are only days away from the beginning of Lent which is when this blog becomes Lent Thing 7 (well, actually, we use that page!) Here is an article from NCR about James Martin SJ’s online Lenten retreat. An idea if you are looking for something different this Lent.Friend of the blog (and fellow Downton…
And a Community Mourns
I think it will take everyone a while to move a little bit away from the events of this past weekend. In the next couple of days, a mother and father will bury their young daughter, a sister will bury her sister. Another family will come to grips that they have a murderer in it. How did any of…
“Voices From the Edge”
I am in the midst of revisiting Anthony Ciorra’s 1995 book Everyday Mysticism it is one of those books that I have stared at for years at the wonderful monastery I visit, Mount Saviour Monastery in Elmira, NY. A couple of years back, a friend gave it to me…which was good cause I could never…