by Barbara | Jan 2, 2014 | Featured
What is it we do most in the New Year? Make resolutions, right? Like everyone else, I think the new year is a great time to start again, do over, and reboot. Why I think the new year is a better time than say tomorrow morning or this afternoon is a mystery. Maybe I...
by Barbara | Dec 27, 2013 | Featured
Well it is the 27th of December and the Christmas trees are piling up over in the empty lot for pick up. Seriously? Here in America it is quickly off to the next major way to make a buck. Many of us observed with disdain as space committed to Valentine’s Day...
by Barbara | Dec 13, 2013 | Featured, My Musings
“Jesus, takes the initiative to meet man through his Mother.” (Msgr. Sanchez) As I continue to read, ponder and reflect on the role of the Virgin Mary, I come to love her and honor her all the more. Her fiat was a blank check paid for in tears and with...
by Barbara | Dec 11, 2013 | Featured
Oh December…why must ye fly so quickly by? I’ve much to do, no time to sigh. Cards to mail, gifts to buy and chocolate to bake, I’m not gonna lie. Perhaps we might consider, elongating this month, a simple fort nigh’? Why imagine the time it...
by Barbara | Dec 8, 2013 | Faith, Featured
Everywhere we look there are signs. They point us to destinations, tell us when to use caution, where to go to find something, seek help and so on. What are the signs we find at this time of the year? The weather has changed, the leaves have fallen, brilliant light...
