Happy St. Brigid’s Feast Day!
Fifty-something years ago in a Catholic school not so far away, the nuns used to read to us from The Lives of the Saints. St. Brigid was always my favorite, [...]
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Jan, 2025
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Oct, 2020
Earthseed, a review
Goodreads had a Facebook post a week or so ago asking readers to “describe the book you’re currently reading in one word.” I’m generally too verbose to succeed with such restrictions, [...]
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Jul, 2020
Pray For Our Country
I had something else laid out and ready to go this week, but coming up on the Independence Day Holiday, I felt a need to say something more. When [...]
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Apr, 2019
God of the Starling, God of the Murmuration
I wrote this a year ago at Easter, long before any of us had heard of Corona Virus. During this extraordinary time in our lives and history, I wanted to [...]
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Jun, 2013
My Catholicism
ORIGINALLY POSTED MARCH 11, 2013 I saw a cartoon recently of three mythical Catholic cardinals, each of a different ethnicity, happily discussing the upcoming conclave. The first says: “Perhaps the [...]