I often found myself lying in bed at night in my messy house, with the kids’ school half done, meals that were late (and a few only qualified as meals in the most technical sense of the word) and wondering “where did that whole day go?”   Saint Paul said that Our Lord is the god…

On occasion I’d see sign-ups to take new moms a meal in my mom’s group but I never participated for two reasons: I had a very hairy dog and was paranoid some dog hair might make its way into the food,  a social faux pas few can come back from. I’m not a great cook…

The first couple of Lents after my reversion to the Catholic faith were pretty intense.  I undertook fasting diets that would have made Gandhi look like a glutton. I had prayer goals that the Seraphim wouldn’t have been able to keep up with.  The pile of books I planned for my spiritual reading dwarfed the…

When my baby looks at me with a look of absolute love and adoration it can, at times, make me a little uncomfortable.   I say to her, “Now calm down there little baby.  You haven’t really gotten to know me. I am far from perfect and have many, many, many faults.” She ignores me and…

Advent never goes as planned for us.  Never. Not a single Advent. Not a one since we’ve started celebrating Advent. That doesn’t stop me from planning again each year.  Maybe there’s something about Christmas Carols, Christmas decor everywhere and the air almost electric with Christmas cheer that wipes the memory clean from all that occurred…