So everyone is talking about romance and love as Valentine's Day approaches, but what about the other 364 days a year? Are we making time for romance -- or at ...
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Pope Francis makes an impromptu visit to an immigrant settlement on the outskirts of Rome. This video is so beautiful it made me cry. (more…)
It's not too late! If you start right now, you and your spouse can participate in a virtual seven-day marriage retreat that will take you right up to ...
Some food for thought on this Wisdom Wednesday from Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home, a beautiful book by potter and author Sue Bender. Not surprisingly, ...
Put your hands up and step away from the screen. That's the Cliff Notes version of Pope Francis' message for World Communications Day. Okay, I may be taking ...
Headline says it all. It's going to be one of THOSE weeks. Between my out-of-town travel for a weekend retreat and the holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, ...
My new favorite song, discovered on The Coffee House on Sirius/XM, for your Music Monday listening pleasure. Simple, beautiful, spot on. This one goes out to ...
I've kept quiet through a lot of the ridiculous stuff that goes on out there in the media world lately. To be honest, I just don't have it in me anymore to bang ...
Marriage is hard, even under the best of circumstances. Add in some problems, and marriage can feel beyond hard, maybe impossible, as evidenced by the soaring ...
I love to read about how other people have transformed their lives into something more manageable, less stressful, more satisfying. What steps did they take? ...
As Olivia pointed out on the long drive home from a weekend with cousins at the Jersey Shore, we've had three mini-vacations this summer, with the big one yet ...
How is it possible we have already hit mid-July? I would find that totally unbelievable except for the fact that I'm looking out at my yard as I write this, and ...
About five for six years ago, I kept bumping into St. Francis de Sales. He seemed to show up at every turn in my reading and writing. That's when I first ...
Summer vacation STILL hasn't started for us. A few more days of school before the kids are free and we sit down to make our annual Beach Bucket List. Noah is ...
I've decided to continue our Lucinda Williams theme by choosing her song "Blue" as our Wednesday Wisdom. One of the few "poems" I've written in my life is ...
When I moved to Austin, Texas, the first time... (I actually moved there twice, first in 1988 and again in 1995. Almost moved there a third time. It's that kind ...
My June Life Lines column, running in the current issue of Catholic New York:
When you sign onto Facebook to check out your friend’s latest vacation photos or ...
Last week, after our date-night dinner, Dennis and I stood on the Albany side of the Hudson looking out and, as I usually do, I pointed to a beautiful steeple ...
After back-to-back, wall-to-wall dance dress rehearsals and recitals this past week, we have reached a place of calm. At least for the time being. I keep ...
I was thinking about blogging about the disciples on the Road to Emmaus when I sat down to breakfast today, and then I read Pope Francis' homily on this very ...