A farewell to a lamp April 26, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window As I turned the switch, the lamp started falling over onto my arm. I caught it and realized there were bits and pieces of the base spread all over the floor.
7 poems in 7 styles that may just bring out 7 smiles (7 Quick Takes) April 25, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window National Poetry Month will be coming to a close soon, so these 7 takes are written in 7 different poetic forms.
Finding hope in the beauty of God’s creation April 21, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window, Uncategorized God’s fingerprints are everywhere, and this spring I spot gift after gift from our Creator. The greatest gift, of course, is today.
A trumpet and a lesson in trust April 21, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, The Domestic Church The challenge for us might be to trust God, knowing that he wants what’s best for us and that he knows us better than we know ourselves.
Teaching Together while Apart: The 2020 Virtual NCEA Convention April 20, 2020By Robyn Barberry Filed Under: Blog, Unconditional It’s hard not to be able to walk twenty-two steps across the hall to ask your friend for help. It’s hard not to know what the future of virtual education looks like.
I could write a sonnet about everything we did during the octave of Easter (7 Quick Takes) April 16, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window My niece, Elise, challenged me to write this week’s 7 Quick Takes in sonnet form. April is National Poetry Month, after all. I think she believes—and rightly so—that I turn too often to limericks. And I do love a challenge.
Drawing strength from those before us April 16, 2020By Suzanna Molino Singleton Filed Under: Blog, Snippets of Faith Forget the hair, go back to your family roots.
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.
