It often happens when I am forced to spend much time alone that I wander through my memories. That great file cabinet of remembrances about times past; childhood, times as a young adult and life as a wife and mother, friends, and good times and those not so. But more often than those wanderings through […]

Behind the mask there is a recent high school senior who is excited to be packing and moving to college, but apprehensive because college has limited visitors and has cut out the breaks and long weekends, encouraging students not to go home. Behind the mask there is a soon-to-be bride not excited that her family […]

When I think about the title of my blog series, “Telling Our Story in the 21st Century”, I have a pretty broad image of what the word ‘Story’ could mean. It’s an intangible notion that, to me, cannot be defined definitively in one sitting. Today I just want to focus on one aspect. ‘Story’ is […]

What if there was something you could do that helped lower your blood pressure, manage worries and stress, and could help keep your brain sharp? You probably have all the equipment you need right at home, and you won’t even break a sweat doing it. Too good to be true? Most of us probably read […]

As this pandemic has continued on, and I continue working from home, I noticed I was restless, like something was missing. I could not place what it was. One day I finally had to go into the office to get mail, make some copies, pick up packages, etc. and I figured it out. I drive […]

If I have learned anything in the first six months of 2020, it may be that ‘uncertain’ is its middle name. You know me well enough from writing here that “roll with it” is not my preferred mode of traveling through life. Yet the Lord saw this year before it was even on our radar […]

In these days that seem to blend together in our state’s, “Safe At Home”, order I have become a mask-maker. What began and a simple necessity to make masks for family and a few friends has become a mini manufacturing piece of my life. My living room now has an ironing board and cutting/sewing table […]

On March 27 in Rome, Pope Francis addressed God and said, “It is not the time of your judgment, but of our judgment; a time to choose what matters and what passes away, a time to separate what is necessary from what is not.” Pope Francis wants us to use this pandemic as an opportunity. […]

“I’m a perfectionist,” I’d tell myself and then promptly follow it with other reasons why things just had to be a certain way. It was a preferred way to live and keep certain parts of life “just so.” Eventually, as I got older I found ways to use my organizing and planning skills where they […]

Alleluia! It continues to be the season of Easter in our church, in our faith. It is a different Easter Season for me this year. I find myself wondering if we are indeed in the Easter Season. The last time I was able to attend Mass, it was Lent. The last time I was able […]