Autumn Leaves
This week I have been sitting in my recliner chair in the living room most of the time, and it has given me the opportunity to contemplate my surroundings, including…
It’s been a long week … and a half
I will try to hit the highlights that have happened since the crash: On Wednesday I got to tow the van to a neighborhood body shop. Driving lead car to…
Boom! Smash! Oww! (Whoops!)
It should have been easy-peasy; a walk in the park; a piece of cake - take your pick, any metaphor will do. Mom had a check up downtown at her…
Roller Coaster
This week started with such promise and joy - Pentecost Sunday, a high point of the liturgical year, was made even more magnificent as we saw from afar that our…
Pentecost Sunday, June 8, 2014
“And when the days of Pentecost were drawing to a close, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a violent…
Pentecost Sunday With The Pope
I have thus far successfully restrained myself from posting here any of the Rome photos from the Ss. Simon and Jude Youth Group Facebook page, because I know how wonderful…
Saturday Successes
Since Paul took off yesterday afternoon with a van-load of Gonzales kids for a little fun time at the ranch, we've had kind of a slow-mo day around the house. There was…
June Photo Challenge, days 1-6
If you enter the words "photo challenge" into Google search, and you will find not only dozens - more like hundreds - of different photo challenges, you will also find some tremendously…
Another Rite of Passage
These days with my house full of teenagers, they are coming fast and furious -- last month a daughter turned 16 and another took her first trans-Atlantic flight. This morning…