It is Good Friday, and Poetry Friday (and April ushers in National Poetry Month), and it's also Jazz Appreciation Month, which means our...

 I didn't mean to go underground and neglect my blog for a week, but sometimes life is strong and busy stuff and the blog just takes a...

Winter does, sometimes, leave me bowed down in heart. But, spring -- o lovely spring! -- is here. Even in Nebraska. And I am ready to ...

This is a re-post from when Anne-with-an-e was younger : ~~~~~ When Anne-with-an-e was much younger, she was very sensitive. A picture...

When Betsy was younger, before we had her asthma figured out, there were some long and terrible nights. She coughed. Miserably.  I felt help...

When my daughters were young, I wrote about " Lent with Young Children ." We always did our Lamb of God calendar: We put ...

(from  the archives :) I want to share my three best tips for a meaningful Lent (or any month): They are: 1. Go to confession. 2. Go...

Find Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle's book here .  Fr. Barron's LentReflections.com Go to Gracedays.net   to enter ...

... at 7 a.m. central time, on Relevant Radio. I'll be talking with John Harper about teens and young adults -- digging deeper during...

Top Ten Things For Me To Consider Doing (Or Rather, Not Doing) This Lent (Based on things I have done in the past):  10.   Give up me...