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April 2025

April 25, 2025
Pope Francis died Easter Monday and the world has lost a good and faithful servant...
April 14, 2025
I'd decided not to listen to the news this week, in an attempt to turn...
April 07, 2025
If there is a way to misunderstand God, we in our freewill and predisposition to...

March 2025

March 29, 2025
We live in a world that cannot bear the reality of reality.  The cross itself...
March 19, 2025
We live in difficult times, but in truth, we have always lived in difficult times...
March 17, 2025
This week, I finally got to see the animated film that won best feature for...
March 10, 2025
This morning, I woke and felt like somehow, I'd missed Lent even though it only...
March 08, 2025
With all due respect to Elon Musk's vaulted opinion, given credence by the number of...
March 03, 2025
I own a dog.  She's cute and friendly and endlessly entertaining.  What she doesn't do,...

February 2025

February 26, 2025
These days, if you look at the news, there's a strong case to be made...
February 25, 2025
The pope is in the hospital. It's the Jubilee Year of Hope.  Given how he...
February 10, 2025
Happy Saint Valentine's Week! Why limit ourselves to a day?  Why not a lifetime? Want...
February 05, 2025
Today I went to confession. I talked with a friend and my husband made dinner. ...
February 03, 2025
I tried to watch the Grammies, but they didn't pull me in, not with the...

January 2025

January 25, 2025
Many who heard the speech given by our former and present President, felt ill at...
January 20, 2025
If you follow Christ, you will suffer, but you will suffer joyfully.  Not happily mind...
January 13, 2025
Ten thousand steps, Duo Lingo, did I read, did I study, did I write? Did...
January 11, 2025
10) I stink at Dulingo, so don't ask me anything in spanish. 9) I am...
January 07, 2025
So President Elect Trump wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America....
January 06, 2025
Over the years, I've made resolutions.  They include the usuals like losing weight, reading books,...
January 05, 2025
Woodcut by Christian Rohlfs of 1910 The three kings brought gold, frankincense and myrrh.   They...
January 04, 2025
2025 is a Jubilee year of hope, declared by Pope Francis.  With such years, there...
January 03, 2025
We don't spend much time thinking about the three kings or three wise men that...
January 02, 2025
Being a parent of older children, I must relearn what I knew when they were...
January 01, 2025
So I just came back from a ten day trek to Texas and back to...

December 2024

December 14, 2024
Visiting my sister, I've found a thousand rabbit holes down memory lane as we go...
December 11, 2024
Whenever people ask me, "Hey Sherry, or Hey Mom, what do you want for...insert holiday...
December 08, 2024
The phrase, "How are you doing?" seems so innocent, so simple, so straightforward.  It is...

November 2024

November 23, 2024
When my children were little, their exploits could be shared because the stories themselves were...
November 21, 2024
Taking down the recycling, walking the dog and braving the lower than forty degrees which...
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