If you follow me on Instagram, you may have seen my photos of a rusty old pipe last week. Ugh. On Tuesday night, we were sitting in the living room and heard a loud gush of water, and then a…
If you follow me on Instagram, you may have seen my photos of a rusty old pipe last week. Ugh. On Tuesday night, we were sitting in the living room and heard a loud gush of water, and then a…
This post was originally published on January 26, 2009. It has been haunting me for the last couple of days; it speaks to love lost, to a love of the past, and to what happens when you see someone you…
I got a special package this week. My dear friend and former room mate had asked for our new address a little while ago. And here, in her lovely, familiar handwriting was a gift. “Caro,” she writes… a nickname that…
A little while ago, Zoom and I spent an afternoon making some golf ball art. I decided to use the golf ball art as part of our Valentine’s this year. Here are all of the supplies we used: art, pinking…
Kevin has been the leader of our retreat planning team for about three and half years. After our last retreat, he announced he would be stepping down. We’ve all been through a lot; with any group there’s so many things…
One of my favorite stories from my friend Kathy (my Yale roomie) was from when she was a little girl. As a child of divorced parents, she had family in both California and Texas. She spent her summers in California…
A Franciscan friend once relayed a story to me of a time when he was discerning his life’s purpose. He went to his Benedictine mentor, a staunch, serious older gentleman and asked him for help in this discernment. And his…
When my family moved to California, back in 1982, we moved next door to an amazing family. It was just our luck that they had two girls, one my age, and the other just a couple of years younger than…
This is it, I’m coming out of the video gaming closet. In another world, I am a level 76 Night Elf Druid. Or, in other words, I play World of Warcraft. Shocking, I know. World of Warcraft, for those who…