Reflections

As mothers, we can all laugh in retrospect about the crazy phone calls and antics of our children. I’m not quit sure if my own kids are “off the charts” when it comes to frolics into the Twilight Zone but they have pulled some “dosies” over the years. Let’s start with...

oldtcw http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fcatholicexchange.com%2F2009%2F02%2F25%2F136038%2F&layout=standard&show-faces=true&width=500&action=like&colorscheme=light I am one of those souls that schools, charities, and...

Mothering the Masses Being a mom for twenty-four years has had an effect in every area of my life.  I feel a real need at times to mother the rest of humanity.  Everywhere I look I see ways to mother people.  Just recently when we were in an airport, some teens I...

I was sitting in my hotel room in beautiful Cleveland, Ohio as a freezing Alberta Clipper whipped outside.  It was the closing day of the National Federation For Catholic Youth Ministers Conference (NFCYM) – now that is a mouthful – and I was contemplating the...

I can remember back to a time when I was the blessed mother of five kids, all under the age of seven. The looks and remarks I would get everywhere were priceless. Of course there were always the comments from kind-hearted souls who would say, “Don’t you know what...