Who would have thought that I would thank God for my husband’s target practice?…

I am a list maker. I also love colored sticky notes. Put the two together, and you will see sticky notes of lists around my desk, in my planner, and sometimes on my phone…

Have you ever looked out a window at a beautiful sunrise or sunset when you are driving? More times than not it is stunning, breath taking, a sight to behold…

It happened sometime around the mid-1980’s during my first year of teaching CCD…

Birth order is intriguing. It can give insight to a person’s temperament and tendencies…

He was a special presence in her life even though they never met in person. She listened to him on the radio after Mass on Sunday…

The day will live on in infamy in my life. I was in fourth grade and playing kickball at recess…

Basketball is life….the rest is just details. I wanted one of those shirts so badly. As a young teen, I could show everyone how important basketball was to me…

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”…