I started writing these while on an airplane yesterday, but then I didn’t manage to finish them until today. But it felt a little like being in Green Eggs and Ham. “Can you write takes on a plane? Can you write them on a train? In a car or on a tree…?”

I turn 35 tomorrow and have been thinking about how I want to live in this new phase of my life. There are two philosophies that people use as guidelines for making decisions about their life’s experiences. I am posing a third.

As I was boarding, a flight attendant said, “This is a crowded flight, so we are going to make some friends today.”

Father Doyle fields questions about the pope’s security detail and receiving Communion in Protestant churches.

It’s no good to speak about the faith and not to live it. And if we are living the faith, we should be willing to speak of it. 

Sometimes we ask St. Anthony to help us find something that is missing. And sometimes we don’t realize what we are missing until we find it.

Join Father Poston and his dog, Otto, on an “Otto Grotto Rosary Walk” in Emmitsburg.

Do all the good you can, for as many people as you can, for as long as you can. If you do that, you may not just live longer. You may live forever.

Mental illness isn’t always something a person can navigate even with a strong, wonderful family and a compassionate friends. It often requires professional help and medication and sometimes switching to different professional help and different medications.

The night our new cousin and nephew was born we went out to dinner to celebrate—and also, maybe more accurately, because I didn’t want to make dinner. We went to Pappas, where I had the absolutely delicious crab cake.