Joy to the World…Let’s Hope!
We are 2 weeks from Thanksgiving and our world is totally upside down – ~ Election Day has come and gone with no President Elect to show for it. ~Halloween: kids were told…
We are 2 weeks from Thanksgiving and our world is totally upside down – ~ Election Day has come and gone with no President Elect to show for it. ~Halloween: kids were told…
History lesson for the day: This was the Catholic Church’s goal for women – be good wives. The sum and summation of our choices. And who we married wasn’t necessarily our own choice – at least not until the twentieth century. I give my fictions character, Cornelia Rose, quite a few choices in suitors, but…
Joan and I are taking a three week hiatus from posting. Yes, we probably will be spending our time causing trouble some other way besides writing. (It does always seem like fun to keep taking tissues out of the box only to have the next one magically pop up.) We just wanted to give fair…
Should I have said “in an OLD FASHIONED thank you note?” Do people under 30 know what its like to compose a note, articulating sincere gratitude, on a nice piece of paper and send it in the mail? I have been the lucky recipient of some wonderful thank you notes recently. A friend who comes…
It never occurred to me that I would grow up to admire my CHILDREN. But I suddenly find myself in the position of marveling at who they are and what they have accomplished. Each one of them. This weekend I was privileged to be able to hear and watch Jocelyn preach again: Catholic Women Preach. I…