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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 and your gut. Listen to your heart — literally and figuratively! (18-minute listen) Don't ...

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You Can’t Fail Lent

February 8, 2021 • Life Lines

The column originally ran on Huffington Post in 2015, but it's a favorite so here it is one more time, just in time: Lent is one of those seasons that ...

Feast of St. Blaise: Do-it-yourself throat blessings

February 3, 2021 • saints

These days — especially in the time of COVID — throat blessings are hard to come by. No, make that near impossible. It’s just not that common anymore, even ...

Week 5: Connecting with nature, even a snow storm

February 1, 2021 • Cravings Tribe

Okay, so we skipped Week 4 here on the blog. I have to apologize. I was not taking my own advice and was allowing myself to sink into a bit of darkness and ...

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Why I Stay

February 21, 2016 • faith

My Life Lines column running in the current issue of Catholic New York: Why do you remain a Catholic?” That was the challenge issued to me on Facebook a ...

Confronted with Christ

February 18, 2016 • family, Give Us This Day

My brief reflection from Give Us This Day earlier this week: Whenever we take our children to Manhattan, we are confronted by the reality of "these ...

Sometimes happiness isn’t a choice.

January 28, 2016 • Life in My 50s

My Life Lines column, running in the current issue of Catholic New York: My hands look older than my mother’s hands ever did. That’s what I was thinking at ...

Talking everyday prayer, grief, friendship and more

January 8, 2016 • grief

I had a great time on today's episode of A Seeking Heart with Allison Gingras of Reconciled to You. We covered a lot of bases, including three of my seven ...

You are enough. No resolutions required.

December 31, 2015 • Cravings, Food

It's not about making a resolution or losing 10 pounds or becoming someone you're not. It's about finding out who you really are and coming to terms with ...

To Jesus through Mary, our star, our gate, our guide

December 4, 2015 • spirituality

My prayer reflection from the December issue of Give Us This Day: Alma Redemptoris Mater - Sweet Mother of the Redeemer Loving Mother of the Redeemer, ...

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