Schoolwork at Home (A mother’s lament in rhyme) April 15, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window “Mom I am.Oh, Mom I am. I love to be just Mom I am. What’s that? Here comes a quarantine? But what could all that home time mean?” “Here comes the schoolwork—there’s a lot. So make sure that each day you plot.” “I’m teaching math? And ELA? Can’t we just let the kids go play?” […]
Becoming an at-home hairstylist? Tips to avoid a hairy situation April 13, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window, Uncategorized Here are a few tips if you find yourself starting your own home salon.
The beauty of Holy Saturday, our Lenten prayer basket, schoolwork, and a yummy mac and cheese recipe (7 Quick Takes) April 11, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window, Recipes Holy Saturday is such a powerful day. It’s a day of quiet. A day of transition. Today we stand between the sorrow of Good Friday and the joy of Easter. It is a peaceful, hopeful, expectant day.
As we await the Resurrection April 10, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Lent, Open Window Somehow in this time of anxiety and indefinite quarantine, when so much seems uncertain, we seem to be primed for those moments of happy discovery—those moments when we see how much we are loved by God and by others.
Holy Saturday Shroud display may help contemplate Christ’s triumph April 7, 2020By Christopher Gunty Filed Under: Behind the Headlines, Blog, Commentary, Coronavirus Along comes a new opportunity to experience the Passion of Christ this Holy Week and Easter.
The bird at the feeder April 7, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Lent, Open Window We’ve waited. We’ve watched. And the bird feeder has hung there, full of seeds no one was eating.
Easter will not be cancelled April 6, 2020By Suzanna Molino Singleton Filed Under: Blog, Coronavirus, Snippets of Faith Easter will not be cancelled, nor shall our hope that everything will be okay.
Not the Holy Week we expected April 5, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Lent, Open Window Let’s find small and simple ways to walk with Jesus this Holy Week.
Grateful, for a relatively uneventful Holy Week, and my primary caregiver April 3, 2020By Paul McMullen Filed Under: Baltimore Boomer, Blog Two years after quadruple bypass heart surgery, appreciation for caregivers grows, but still begins in the home.
April is the perfect time to share these seven takes in rhyme April 2, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window Happy National Poetry Month!
No one is invincible: An unlikely coronavirus victim shares her story of struggle and survival April 1, 2020By Robyn Barberry Filed Under: Blog, Coronavirus, Unconditional So many Americans believe that only the elderly and the immunocompromised are capable of contracting and becoming gravely ill from Covid-19. I, too, believed I was invincible until I saw a social media post written by a high school classmate, Tiffany Vega-Gibson.
Three kisses for Tomie dePaola March 31, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window, Saints We could never get enough of Tomie dePaola’s illustrations and stories. But what he has left behind for us will have to be enough to read over and over again.
