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A World of Endless Thresholds

December 28, 2024 • Life Lines

We stand on the cusp of a new year, another threshold, which, oddly enough, tends to get us thinking not about where we are standing at that moment but about where we’ve been or where we might be going. Caught between regret and fear, we often miss the ...

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Beauty Even in the Fading

October 6, 2022 • Life Lines

It's funny how we have certain expectations of life, from the biggest events to the smallest details, and we are quick to label the results: good, bad, ...

Close encounters of the saintly kind

October 1, 2022 • saints

On this Feast of St. Thèrése of Lisieux, I thought I'd share my close encounter with this beloved saint. I was never a big fan of St. Thèrése. I didn't have ...

New podcast: Life in My 60s – Silence and the True Self

September 29, 2022 • podcasts

As I begin Life in My 60s, I wanted to spend some time talking about the journey and the joy that comes with it. Join me for conversation about aging and the ...

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The gift of community, the joy of the tribe

March 26, 2020 • Life in My 50s, Life Lines

The older I get, the more I like to tackle things I probably have no business tackling. In the course of the past 10 years, I’ve done everything from tennis ...

New book of reflections available now!

February 19, 2020 • Books

My Easter season book of reflections, Rejoice and Be Glad 2020: Daily Reflection for Easter to Pentecost from Liturgical Press is available for sale now. ...

12 years and counting…

January 24, 2020 • Uncategorized

Today is the 12th 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 what ...

Finding God in the land of the ‘Nones’

January 14, 2020 • Life Lines

I traveled to Seattle a few weeks ago to give a parish retreat at St. Monica’s Church on Mercer Island. Long before I boarded the plane for my first ...

Seattle snapshot: Advent 101

December 16, 2019 • retreats

A very brief invitation to my Seattle Advent retreat. My first time in the Pacific Northwest. I loved it, and I found a spiritual vibe everywhere — at Pike ...

Don’t wait. Say yes.

December 8, 2019 • Life Lines

I first got to know Sister Johanne McCarthy, C.S.J., about 18 months ago when she wrote to complain that our Albany diocesan newspaper wasn’t giving ...

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