http://sports.yahoo.com/news/spt–boston-marathon-explosions-attract-an-outpouring-of-help-from-city-s-residents-022321905.htmlRead the article and remember who we really are outside all of the bickering on the left and the right, this is who we are. Notice no one qualified political party, nationality, sexual orientation, or even gender. This is who we really are and it is a beautiful thing. It’s called human.
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.
Noah, a 9 year old with AML (Leukemia) on this prayer chain. He comes from a marvelous family that are dear friends of ours and is in Arnold Palmer Hospital in Fla. His grandmother Linda has asked that he be placed on all prayer chains. He is a valiant little boy that is receiving Chemo…
Most of the people who know me, know that I take at least one weekend a year and spend it with “my” monks. Several have died over the 27 years that I have been going and their vocations have gone the way of many other vocations. Our family, and the people I go there with…
The past couple of days have been my favorite kind of January days. A little snowy, Jane Austin filled and quiet…well until kids come home but that is good too. I have been moving from couch to couch, from chore to chore but have felt a real quiet, almost a stillness in my world. Ironic,…
I should preface this post with a disclaimer: All of my girls are tough. They are all very capable and pretty well-rounded but Syd gets the attention today…My middle child (as she likes to playfully lament) was born after only 4 hours of labor and 20 minutes of delivery. I remember looking at her and saying,…
I received an unexpected phone call yesterday from a family member who hasn’t communicated in three years; a self-imposed exile I guess. Our relationship has been tenuous for most of it, but there have also been good times. I always wonder if it is a good idea to reconnect and yet my instinct is to do…
This is one of my favorite quotes from Stephen Colbert because it exposes the hypocrisy of the way we think as a self proclaimed “Christian” nation. I am also linking the clip from his show the other night with Fr. Tom Reese from Georgetown University that talks about the budget being a moral document. In…