the glory of everything

Faith Formation (CCD) was quite nice yesterday. We were decorating Christmas boxes (filled with notes of what we were and would be giving to...

This week we had a holy day of obligation in the Catholic Church: the feast of the Immaculate Conception. A holy day requires those of us wh...

I watched PBS's Nature last night. The program was "Wolverine: Chasing the Phantom." And among the many amazing things they sa...

I was awakened by a migraine this morning. It is a hard way to greet a new day. I took my meds, went back to bed for a few minutes rather th...

One of my first-favorite passages of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov comes at the end of Part 1. I love the joy and peace of it: ...

There is only love, and when love fails, life fails. O my Jesus, forgive us our sins. Save us from the fires of hell [that rage in our heart...

Today is the feast day of St Pio of Pietrelcina. Padre Pio is significant to me mostly because of our 6-month-old son, Noah. During his birt...

I recently read Francis Chan's Crazy Love. I'm not a big fan of the book, if you care. Sometimes we get caught up in wanting to liv...

My seven-year-old, Avery, said, "I wish I could bite my butt like dogs do." ..... "I wish I was a girl but I had a boy's ...

My computer won't turn on - probably the power supply as it's been a recurring problem on this machine. The difference is that this ...