On any given day, you’ll find me and Dennis running the gauntlet of modern family life. If you live it, you know it—or at least your own version of it. Early to ...
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My annual tribute to the baby I lost, the baby I call Grace:
For the past few days I’ve been looking at the numbers on the calendar, growing more and more ...
Dennis and I were sitting around the kitchen table one morning talking with our son, Noah, who is home from college for the summer and working full time for the ...
Most weekends I don't look forward to the long list of things that need to get done. After a busy week at work and nights spent driving to and from appointments ...
I was going through some old Life Lines columns and happened to come across this one from January 2002. This snowy Sunday seemed like the perfect time to pull ...
Lighting the Advent wreath each night for prayers before dinner has long been my family’s tradition. The flickering candlelight growing brighter with each ...
If you've been a reader of this blog since the early days, you know my family has had some Advent struggles over the years. There was the time we needed to ...
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 least ...
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 ...
My annual post in remembrance of the baby I never got to meet:
For the past few days I've been looking at the numbers on the calendar, growing more and more ...
My latest story in the current issue of OSV Newsweekly:
If you are of a certain age, you might remember the late comedian Rodney Dangerfield’s signature line: ...
These are busy, crazy times here in the Poust House, and things only promise to get a bit crazier as we head toward the Triduum and Easter. That photo on the ...
I am typically a "Why me?" sort of person -- when my computer crashes, when a recipe flops, when I come home from the store without the one thing I went there ...
UPDATE (3/3/15): Noah's MRI showed no damage to his heart valves or pumping function due to the inflammation in his heart (myocarditis). He still has a long way ...
I haven't kept a gratitude journal with any long-term success over the years, despite knowing the benefits. In my latest Life Lines column (now running in the ...
The shoes were placed by the front door with care last night. Okay, to be honest, the almost-18-year-old just left them there out of habit, but the two girls ...
Don't let the frenzy of the season rob you of the chance to wait in wonder this Advent. Here's my OSV Newsweekly story from last Advent to get you in the ...
Grand Theft Auto, the violent bestselling video game franchise, was in the news again this week for upgrading its game to allow players to have sex with a ...
It's been almost three weeks since I returned from Italy, and I still haven't managed to write any posts about the experience or trade my Euro for U.S. ...
In honor of Sister Anne Bryan Smollin, CSJ, who died last week, I thought I would run this Life Lines column from last July. It was sparked by the marriage ...
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