On a recent rainy morning, I ventured up to Trader Joe’s on Wolf Road in Albany, armed with a vacation snack wish list from my daughter, Olivia, who would be meeting us the next day for a week at the Jersey Shore. Unlike others who make regular ...
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Rosary-challenged. That’s how I’ve described myself for most of my life. Don’t get me wrong. I have more sets of rosary beads than I can count, tucked away ...
Last week I was working out in a corner of our backyard where I decided to create a meditation garden. The area, which had once been home to a swing set, had ...
As we round the corner on pandemic and see a faint light at the end of our long Covid tunnel, I’ve found myself stuck—physically, due to some minor injuries ...
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If you build it, they will come.
Thank you to everyone -- in the comment section on this blog, on my Facebook page, and in my email inbox -- who have said ...
I don’t know about you, but right about now I could use a tribe, a group of like-minded folks who want to band together for support on the journey. I was ...
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 ...
German mystic Meister Eckhart once said, “If the only prayer you said your whole life was ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.”
Gratitude has that kind of ...
Three times in my life -- three, count 'em -- I have either started to train as a yoga teacher (back in Austin in the 1980s), started the application process ...
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