Monthly Archives: May 2013
So you want to be a radical?
How many of us walk by the kiosks where the lottery tickets are sold and just for a second imagine what it would be...
Reaction
In the past week, there has been a lot of rough weather. The worst of it, or at least the worst that has gotten...
Who Am I?
A few weeks ago on my birthday, a bunch of friends and I got together for drinks and excess amounts of various desserts. The...
Abuse. Blasphemy. Communion in the hand?
"I'm heartbroken to announce that last week, we discovered a crushed consecrated Host beneath one of the kneelers," the pastor of a small yet...
Life is a battlefield
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King Jr.
In his recent homily, Pope Francis...
Necessary Magic
Several years ago, when I was working on a community theatre project, I overheard two little girls having a conversation about wishes. They were...
Who tells you what to do?
My friend blogged the other day about how her boys, when allowed to have whatever they want for breakfast on their birthday, choose cereal....
Momentous motherhood
"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." -...
Mother as Tabernacle
"Can a woman forget her nursing child, or have no compassion for the child of her womb?” (Isaiah 49:15)
Can you imagine a woman who...
The craziness of love
A few months ago, my Herbalist folded her hands in her lap and looked at me meditatively. I have been going to her for...
