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My latest Life Lines column running in the current issue of Catholic New York:
Every year, when summer rolls around, I vow to work less and play more, or at ...
About eight or nine years ago, my aunt gave me a lovely picnic basket backpack, complete with cloth napkins, plastic wine glasses, everything you’d need for a ...
When I sat down to write this birthday post for my baby, Chiara Elizabeth, who turned nine today, I found myself unable to get started. Every time I wrote ...
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 ...
I should have know you would turn out to be a determined, amazing, strong, daring girl...
...when you burst into the world in record time (less than 30 minutes ...
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 ...
Okay, here’s the question of the day: Is the Christmas stocking important or irrelevant? This debate rages at our house each Christmas season. For me, the ...
I spent the past two days at my grandmother's bedside, watching her die. We don't know how long she has -- minutes, hours, days, weeks? For anyone who's been ...
So it occurred to me, as I scrolled through old photos looking for something to feature on Throwback Thursday this week, that the pajamas I was wearing on ...
The shoes were placed by the front door with care last night. Okay, to be honest, the almost-17-year-old just left them there out of habit, but the two girls ...
If any of you were around these parts last year, you may remember that we started our Advent season not with a prayer but with a coin toss. Because that's how ...
The thought of people shopping on Thanksgiving, working on Thanksgiving, fighting each other over cheap cell phones and cheaper TVs on Thanksgiving makes me so ...
When I went to visit my grandmother at the nursing home yesterday, I packed a little cooler bag with my lunch, thinking it might be nice to eat with her. I just ...
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 ...
This past week has been a whirlwind of activity, and there's no end in sight. But it's all good. Busy, but good busy. By next week at this time, we will have ...
Yesterday Chiara came into our bedroom early in the morning, and as she snuggled up next to me I said, "We have to go sell Girl Scout cookies today." Here's how ...
Sixteen years ago today -- right now -- I was in labor with my firstborn. It was a moment in time that would change me forever, a day that would usher into my ...
Today, in the midst of my absolute craziness, I was given the gift of a little sacred moment in an unlikely place. And, as far as I'm concerned, those are the ...
You may recall that last week's kick-off to the Advent festivities at our house deteriorated into fighting, screaming, a coin toss, and, eventually, a ...