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Savoring the Sacred

December 18, 2024 • Advent, retreats

If you missed the online Advent mini-retreat I offered in collaboration with Give Us This Day, you can watch the replay here. I share tips that are helpful not only during this season of waiting but in the everyday moments of all of life. The one-hour ...

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We all need Sabbath: Why quiet isn’t “quitting”

September 2, 2022 • Life Lines

As I sat in my beach chair late last month, toes in the sand and eyes fixed on an endless horizon that gave me the slightest inkling of eternity, I found for ...

A Tale of Two Cities: Chicago and Milwaukee

August 22, 2022 • Travel

In case you missed it, here's my recent travel story for the Albany Times Union. One weekend, two great American cities: As the lazy days of summer wind ...

Miscarriage: love and loss 24 years later

August 6, 2022 • parenting

My annual tribute to the baby I lost 24 years ago today, the baby I call Grace: For the past few days I’ve been looking at the numbers on the calendar, ...

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Life — the daring adventure

August 19, 2019 • Life Lines

When I was working as a reporter for Catholic New York back in the 1980s, I had one of those quote-of-the-day calendars on the desk in my cubicle overlooking ...

Build community, start small

July 19, 2019 • Life Lines

I went back to yoga class last month after a long break. Day by day, as I returned to my mat in a room surrounded by people— mostly strangers—of all ages, ...

The world needs beauty

July 7, 2019 • Life Lines

I was lucky enough to visit the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris about one year ago, when I went to the City of Lights with my daughter, Olivia, on a ...

God Alone

May 18, 2019 • Give Us This Day

For those of you who, like me, may be struggling in our Church these day, I thought I would share my Give Us This Day reflection from two weeks ago. ...

Standing in the desert side by side

April 7, 2019 • Life Lines

Although we’re only one week into our Lenten journey, it feels like we’ve been in this desert for months. At least that’s how it feels to me. Last summer’s ...

Looking for a Lenten guide? Here you go!

February 19, 2019 • Lent

Are you looking for a spiritual guide to be your companion through Lent? Look no further. There's still time to order my latest book of reflections, Not by ...

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