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June 2021

June 24, 2021
This morning it is raining, a perfect summer shower with soft rumblings of thunder here...
June 15, 2021
I’m composing this in my head as I sit on the riding lawn mower, passing...
June 01, 2021
“Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it.”  The house...

May 2021

May 25, 2021
My seven-year-old daughter balked.  “Do I really have to rest?”  “Yes,” I said. “This is...
May 22, 2021
"Be glad, O sons of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord, your God; for he...
May 18, 2021
This essay ran originally in the August 29, 2020 edition of the Sedalia Democrat. It...
May 11, 2021
Almost nobody I knew was a “stay-at-home-mom.” I don’t believe I even heard the term...
May 08, 2021
"May, with alle thy floures and thy grene, Welcome be thou, faire, fresshe May!" -Chaucer...
May 04, 2021
This essay ran originally in the May 2, 2020 edition of the Sedalia Democrat.  I love...
May 01, 2021
Feast of St. Joseph the Worker/May Day  May 1, 2021  Old farmers do not begin...

April 2021

April 28, 2021
My father was sober, running his hand through his hair. His face was covered with...
April 20, 2021
Here in Green Ridge, the snow has been falling thickly since just after dawn. The...
April 13, 2021
In Eastertide, God is no longer willing to restrain his abundance. It pours out on...
April 07, 2021
The doctor was a tall, lean, eccentric man. No one knew quite what his medical...

March 2021

March 27, 2021
Willow trees are greening, robins are mating, and the Worm Moon is waxing full this...
March 23, 2021
We who live in temperate climates are privileged to experience God’s love in relation to...
March 16, 2021
“If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.”...
March 12, 2021
Spring is sprung here in Green Ridge! In the past week, we heard the first...
March 09, 2021
In the past decade, many Catholics have been looking back to generations long-gone for guidance...
March 05, 2021
In my past, they were all over town. They hung in the entryway of the...
March 02, 2021
It has been a hard weekend in this corner of Green Ridge.  On Saturday night,...

February 2021

February 26, 2021
Welcome to Green Ridge, population 476.  Down a gravel lane, back in the far corner...
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