Unlike most other Advent seasons, this year I was the one setting out the Nativity set. Usually one of the kids calls dibs on setting it out, but I think this year was supposed to be my year…

I recently saw a post on social media from a friend from college, and I took a screenshot of the post because I wanted to spend more time with it…

Happy Almost New Year’s Eve! Are you ready to welcome a brand-new liturgical year? If you are at least thinking about it, that’s a good start…

Going to Mass used to be such a workout…

Thirteen years ago this week, our family was crowded into a courtroom in Ottawa finalizing our adoption of Trinity…

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…