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Discovering the Divine in the Everyday

We belong to the One who is and was and is to come

December 4, 2022 • Advent

My Catholic News Service column for the Second Sunday of Advent. (The image is me offering an expanded version of this message as a reflection at Mass during the Advent retreat I led this past weekend at the Dominican Retreat & Conference Center in ...

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On building tribes and learning not to fly too low…

January 3, 2017 • Cravings

You know how sometimes you start reading about something and talking about something and suddenly that word or topic starts showing up all around you. Well, ...

What are you craving in 2017?

January 2, 2017 • Cravings

When I originally started writing this post two days ago, I was so full of optimism and go-get-'em positivity. I was definitely in cheerleader mode. Then, ...

ReVolution, not resolution, beginning here Jan. 2

December 29, 2016 • Cravings, Life in My 50s

Our new adventure -- this Cravings Tribe -- is not about making a single, one-year resolution or losing 10 pounds or becoming someone you’re not. It’s about ...

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“Recipe for Joy” will leave you satisfied and smiling

May 8, 2013 • Uncategorized

I really didn't think I'd be able to read all the way through Recipe for Joy: A Stepmom's Story of Finding Faith, Following Love, and Feeding a Family by ...

Apostle to the Misfits

May 7, 2013 • Uncategorized

About five years ago, around the time my Complete Idiot's Guide to the Catholic Catechism came out, a national Catholic newspaper ran a story on it -- and me ...

The grass is always greener. Except when it’s not.

May 5, 2013 • Travel

For the past few years, Dennis and I have seriously talked about wanting to move away from here. Here being New York's Capital Region. The bloom is off the ...

Lab School, writing, and discovering one true thing

May 3, 2013 • Uncategorized

I rarely get to talk about writing. Mostly when I go out and give workshops or seminars, they're focused on one of my books or on the topic of spirituality ...

‘You were not meant for crawling…’

May 1, 2013 • Uncategorized

Feeling the need for a little Rumi today. Here you go... (more…)

Become the change…Our Brownies show you how

April 30, 2013 • Uncategorized

I am so proud of our little Brownie troop. We started out this year on a Girl Scout "Journey," one that required us to tell our story -- and to change the ...

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