May this season of All Souls offer you a chance to reconnect with those you’ve loved and maybe make a new connection with someone you won’t meet on this side of heaven.

Our boys won’t be trick-or-treating again this year, but we will be handing out candy, and we have two magnificent jack-o-lanterns for the front porch.

Saints are friends who are in heaven, and we can invite them into the ordinary moments of our day.

~1~ I spent the weekend at the beach with a few friends, and it was absolutely wonderful. But by Sunday morning I was looking forward to being home with my family. I had planned to go to Mass in Ocean City, Maryland, but suddenly I had the idea to break my trip in half by […]

I walked over, glanced at the jar, wrote “197” on a piece of paper, and threw it into the container for guesses.

Mercy goes a long way. Criticism gets us nowhere.

I’m trying to take time to marvel at the colors of this season this fall.

Today, I’m not feeling grateful for grief. But I am grateful for Eric. And I’m grateful for the good memories that come rushing back when I think of him.

I was excited about going to our nephew’s outdoor wedding, but I was antsy about the weather forecast.

Five years ago, when my sister and brother-in-law were expecting twin boys, I was rooting for them to come on my husband’s birthday. I loved the idea of them all being birthday buddies. As it turned out, our nephews were born the day after my husband’s birthday. God’s plan is always better than mine, and […]