I am honored to be today's stop on Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyles blog tour for her newest book, Rooted in Love: Our Calling as Catholic Women, from Ave Maria ...
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The Times Union featured me on the front page of the Capital Region section today. Here's the story, with a link:
Delmar author works to make spirituality a ...
I wish I could begin this post with some inspiring story about how we returned from Saturday evening Mass and a lovely dinner out last night to gather around ...
Welcome to the new and improved version of Not Strictly Spiritual, which combines both my blog and my personal website into one convenient location. I’m so glad ...
Things are kind of reaching a fever pitch in my life right now, and sometimes I can't even be sure I'm breathing. I feel like I'm in a constant state of ...
Not Strictly Spiritual is on the verge of a re-launch. Over the past month or so I've been redesigning my site at an undisclosed location in an effort to merge ...
If you're anything like me, right about now you're probably making a list and checking it twice and realizing you have way too many Christmas gifts to buy. Some ...
So it's Small Business Saturday, but even if it were just any other Saturday, there are so many small businesses here in New York's Capital Region (where I am ...
Two different Facebook pages used my comments about Facebook being the new parish hall to prompt new "likes" and start some conversations. I'm thrilled that ...
If you have power tonight, you can catch my cable TV debut on "Guided by Grace," a new 30-minute show from Telecare featuring yours truly as one of four ...
My youngest is preparing for the sacrament of reconciliation and happens to have the best faith formation teacher ever. Last night she came home with a little ...
I've decided to share the panel presentation I gave to the U.S. bishops and Catholic journalists yesterday at "An Encounter with Social Media: Bishops and ...
"God is not God the way we would be God if we were God," said Bishop Edward Braxton of Belleville, Illinois, at yesterday's Mass for U.S. bishops in ...
I'm leavin' on a jet plane...Heading to Baltimore for what's being billed as “An Encounter with Social Media: Bishops and Bloggers Dialogue,” and I'll be one of ...
I was sitting in my office this afternoon, trying to ignore the constant buzzing, droning sound of the neighbor's leaf blower, when I remembered a section of ...
"Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly." -- St. Francis de Sales
When I look at the magnificence of the delicate monarch ...
The deacon who preached the homily at Mass this weekend used a story told by the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin to make his point. It was the story of a prophet ...
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York was on Fox News earlier today talking about the "heroic and generous" spirit of New Yorkers in the wake of the disaster ...
A lone red leaf amid the more dominant yellows and browns.It's been a weekend of leaves fading and falling fast -- like giant snowflakes, covering the ground ...
I'm way back there in the corner to the left.
So when Dennis saw those photos of my home office virtual tour yesterday, he asked the Million Dollar Question: ...