Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. You know what today is: December 13. The feast day of St. Lucy of Syracuse. You remember her. I grew up in an area of the country where most people’s… Continue reading When the Legend Becomes Fact…
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Keeping Busy in the Way that Refreshes
Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. So often during Advent, we think about making time for everything: shopping. Wrapping. Cooking. Baking. Making dinner or plane or car
Assumptions and the Assumption
August 15, 7:30 a.m. or so, nearly fifty years ago. My sister and I were awakened by our father, who was bursting with news. Mom, who suffered through a long, hot summer (with an average daily high in July of 89 degrees) of pregnancy, had just given birth to not one but two
And When I Die…
I went to a funeral last week, and will be attending another one this week. They will be starkly different in the number of attendees and many other ways, some important, some not. The contrast has me thinking about what I’d like–and what I’d not like–at my funeral. Now, any of you who survive me… Continue reading And When I Die…