You get the meaning, even if it wasn’t a commonly used phrase when you were growing up…

Since starting my new job one month ago, I have had to figure out ways to incorporate my faith into my life in ways that were super easy when I taught at St. Mary's School…

Yesterday, I was grateful for a white shirt.

A men’s, white, long-sleeved, collared shirt to be more specific…

Loving and befriending is hard work. But what did I expect? Maybe that as the years added up this would get easier?…

Details. They seem to matter a great deal to a great many people. The details of how you meet someone, the details of a birth, the details of a death, the details of a new job or a new phase of life…

Several headlines recently caught my eye. They were on separate occasions, over the course of several months, but on a similar topic: the science of happiness…

As a child, I was perplexed by these people with bubbles around their heads…

Last week my kids were at their father's, so it was just me. I had read a couple books just for fun, but I felt like I needed something more to do with my time that was relaxing…

I stood up for what was right. But it didn’t feel so good…

It was with a mixture of both pride and dismay that I surveyed the entire back area of our Ford Escape. The second-row seats had been folded flat so all that space was filled with, for lack of a better term, cargo. Great job of packing, but will I never learn to travel light?…

I remember how my parents told me that no matter what happened in life they would be there for me. They would help me, guide me, pick me up, scold me, whatever needed to be done because they loved me, and they did…

My husband told me that when he asked my dad for my hand in marriage over 20 years ago, my dad’s initial response was, “Well, you have to learn to compromise”…

Way back in 1999, I attended my first of what turned out to be many Watch Retreat Weekends…

As I was preparing for this week's writing, I was reading about this Sunday being the Holy Trinity. I began thinking about God's role in my life and how the Holy Spirit has worked in me even when I didn't see it or wasn't aware of it…

She was easily the best backwards walker I have seen. I barely noticed her checking behind for obstacles or potential interference…

Even when I don’t verbalize it, I find myself thinking, “Where did this month go?” For most of us, I’m quite sure the month of May falls into its own unique, days-passing-at-warp-speed category…

Well, I am now the proud parent of a high school graduate. I have to say I wasn't sure how I felt about it until this week…

It was 3:38pm on Wednesday, and it hit me that my daughter had an orthodontist appointment that day…at 3:30pm. We were on the wrong side of town, too late and too far away to make it to the appointment. I was so mad at myself…

I remember feeling incredulous when my dad commented to me, “You can choose to love anyone.” This came about when I was about 15 or 16 years old and experiencing the ups and downs of my first semi-serious relationship with a boy…

My 7th graders started reading the novel, Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, recently. A hard working, fun loving family comes upon a spring in a patch of woods…