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2026 Retreat Schedule

December 15, 2025 • retreats

Seven opportunities to retreat with me in 2026! So many great locations to choose from: Dominican Retreat Center in Niskayuna x2, Wiawaka on Lake George, Graymoor on the Holy Mountain, Pyramid Life Center in the ADK, Bon Secours in Maryland, and a second ...

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Heart Health: Trust Your Gut (podcast)

February 18, 2024 • podcasts

In honor of Heart Health Month, I'm sharing my own heart health scare as a cautionary tale. I am so grateful I am here to tell my story. Trust your intuition ...

Listening with the ear of our heart this Lent

February 16, 2024 • Life Lines

Each year, as Lent begins, I can’t help but remember a scene from Sunday Mass a few years back. A little boy sitting in the second pew with his grandmother ...

What is prayer? It’s like talking—and listening—to a best friend.

January 16, 2024 • Life Lines

When it comes to our prayer lives, we too often fall into the trap of setting goals, mapping “progress,” and jumping through spiritual hoops, as if our ...

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Lost Generations? No one to blame but ourselves

February 10, 2022 • Life Lines

Back when my husband, Dennis, and I were teaching a two-year confirmation prep program at our parish in upstate New York, I wrote a column saying that when I ...

Registration is open for Stillpoint Retreat Sept. 9-11

January 31, 2022 • retreats

Registration is now open for the annual Stillpoint Retreat at Pyramid Life Center to be held Friday, Sept. 9, through Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. Spots are ...

Celebrating 14 years here on Not Strictly Spiritual and gearing up for new adventures to come

January 24, 2022 • Cravings Tribe

Today marks the 14th anniversary of this blog. I launched it back in 2008 on the Feast of St. Francis de Sales, patron saint of writers, not really knowing ...

Fear Factor

January 21, 2022 • Give Us This Day

It seems so straightforward: Jesus appoints his Apostles. There doesn’t seem to be much to delve into here. We know how this Gospel (Mark 3:13-19) turns out. ...

Knowing — and doing — what we’re born to do

January 7, 2022 • Life Lines

Hanging on my office door is an image of Joan of Arc in all her courageous glory, with a version of her famous quote: “I am not afraid. I was born to do ...

Begin. Begin again. Begin every day.

January 3, 2022 • Cravings Tribe

Hello, my lovelies! Were you wondering if I had forgotten about you and our plan to start a reVolution not a resolution? There is a method to my madness. As ...

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