I didn’t realize that my 3-year-old likes popcorn. But more significantly, I didn’t realize that I didn’t know things about my 3-year-old. I was awakened to...
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Readings (Year C): 1 Kings 19:16b, 19 – 21Psalms 16:1 – 2, 5, 7 – 8, 9 – 10, 11Galatians 5:1, 13 – 18Luke 9:51 – 62...
Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You Big Thief (4AD, 2022) “Would you live forever, never die / While everything around passes?” So asks Adrianne Lenker...
I was not the most diligent kid when it came to participating in the Mass. As soon as my family entered the church one block away from our home, I would grab a...
My favorite photo of my husband and son was taken in the early hazy days of parenthood when the latter was about 2 weeks old. It’s not a very good photo by...
Readings (Year C): Genesis 14:18 – 20Psalm 110:1, 2, 3, 41 Corinthians 11:23 – 26Luke 9:11b – 17 Reflection: We are part of Christ’s body...
I wish I had a universal translator. You know, like the one they use so pervasively on Star Trek. Surely you’ve seen how it works: No matter what planet the...
A century and a half ago, Jules Verne wrote Around the World in Eighty Days, and readers began to imagine that the world might be shrinking a wee bit. The new...
This past semester I had the opportunity to teach a yoga class to my honors Foundations in Theology students in the chapel on my university’s campus. As I...
As the oldest child in a large, conservative Catholic family, I was raised to believe that my purpose as a woman was to become a wife and mother. Caring for my...
