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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Happy Mother’s Day!
Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers and the women who give mother- love to those around them. The world needs more self-giving love! I am so grateful for my children and for the gift of mothering. I am grateful for my own mother, my sister’s and my mother-in-law and friends who love me unconditionally. I am grateful to other mother’s who support…

Ask and You Shall Receive
It’s happening again, that time when we decide who will lead this country. With it comes the finger pointing and impatience with other people’s points of view, perhaps not as badly yet as 2016, but this is only the beginning. For me, this period is torture. I hear (and sometimes partake) in disparaging, I cannot…
Black Smoke
So yesterday was the first day of the conclave and we have had two voting sessions. I am only remotely interested as I cannot partake and I have to live with the decision anyway, I trust God, I mean after B16 emeritus, why wouldn’t I?? We chose the wrong person to lead us in this…
My Mother
Today is my mother’s 80th birthday. She was waitressing as she does every Monday- Thursday at my sister’s restaurant. She was lavished with love and flowers. She was reminded how much she matters. She deserves every bit of it.When I was growing up we had very little. My mother though, as a true Irishwoman does,…
“I have grasped you by the hand; I formed you and set youas a covenant of the people,a light to the nations,To open the eyes of the blind,to bring out prisoners from confinement,and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness” Isaiah 42: 6-7You.
St Patrick’s Day…a wee late!
What kind of Irish Catholic girl am I that I didn’t acknowledge St. Patrick’s Day on the blog! Well as my apology, I am sharing one of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies; The Quiet Man with John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara. I love this scene because of the old man and the…