My sister and I went to Tulsa for New Year’s. Oklahoma is her next-to-last state (in the Great Rigney Family States Saga; she’ll get New Mexico on her own this fall). In typical
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Tattoos, Inside and Out
Do you ever think about getting a tattoo? It’s just never been something that appeals to me. I don’t even like to have blood drawn, much less let someone stick me with ink-filled
Simbang Gabi Day 7: Our House
“This is our house,” the priest said in his homily at today’s pre-dawn Mass. “We are the children of God.” And what a house it is! The Montgomery girls did the readings this morning. I felt like a
“Nothing Is Ever Lost”
I thought it was lost, my autographed copy of Kathleen Norris’s The Middle of the World, a collection of her poetry I bought in December 1982 at a reading. But I found it last week as