Happy Feast of St. Joan of Arc!
When I was in a difficult stretch a few years back, Joan of Arc became my guide and inspiration. I had the image you see here hanging on the door of my former office (now in my home office). I had a statue of her ...
Right about this time in the Easter season, I begin to slip into complacency. The enormity of the resurrection starts to seem “ordinary,” one more thing I ...
A few weeks ago, I took my daughter, Olivia, to see a production of “Les Miserables” in a beautiful old theater not far from our home. The show had been a ...
It's mid-March, and that can mean only one thing on this blog: It's National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. That means it's also time for me to parade ...
Once a year -- usually during March, which is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month -- I parade out a photo of my fine-looking colon to get your ...
"You Can't Fail Lent: Learning to see these 40 days as journey, not a test." That's what I'll be talking about on Wednesday, April 2, when I head to Darien, ...
Ever since joining Facebook a few years ago, I've been fairly addicted. Okay, super addicted. I loved my Facebook world. Too much. We definitely had a ...
After Pope Francis recently shared the story of reaching into his confessor’s casket and stealing the cross off his Rosary beads, I sent my husband, Dennis, ...
My March "Life Lines" column running in the current issue of Catholic New York:
I decided to clean out some dresser drawers last weekend, and mixed in with ...
A little musical inspiration on this first friday of March and first friday of Lent. I love this song, and when I heard it again yesterday as I was driving ...