Critical Mass

Some days, I feel like no matter how hard I work, my inbox grows faster than I can keep pace with it.  I am busy, busy, busy, all day, and it looks as if I didn’t do a thing.  I begin to despair over its overflowing and unruly state.  It starts to become so bad [...]

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“Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back, but so they will kiss their children and their children’s children.” — Noah benShea
In an aside, the days of double-fisted coffee drinking have begun again! Pumpkin spice lattes are back at Starbucks! :) And after this weekend…I need it!!!

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Take the test.
Have you ever gotten one of those quizzes where they asked you a series of questions to determine your survivability if you were ever a character in a horror flick?
Yeah, well I had a “horror flick” type of experience, and let me tell you, I broke every horror flick survival rule.  Here’s the [...]

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Please pray for Fr. John today. :(
Thanks!!!!

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I know that I’m messed up in many ways, but particularly in the area of love. I frequently think and feel that I have no value, sometimes even that I am not quite a person. Spiritually sick, I know. I’m working on it, but I’m not really sure how to go about getting better. For [...]

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Thanks to Annie! :)
“When God leads you to the edge of the cliff, trust Him fully and let go, only 1 of 2 things will happen; either He’ll catch you when you fall, or He’ll teach you how to fly!”

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This year, Lindsay, Terry and I are studying Jeff Cavins’s Adventures in Matthew, part of the Great Adventure series.  I am so excited to be starting Bible study again!  I have really missed it since last year.  We started off the “school year” right, with Lindsay bringing a delicious dinner of lasagna with home-grown veggies, [...]

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Thanks to Ironic Catholic, who has saved me from bludgeoning my head against “Confessions” for another 10 minutes while I try to figure out what kind of person I am.  I call it Remote Spiritual Direction….  :)
You are a Dynamic Leader.

Dynamic Leader

Dynamic Leader

about you
You are a Leader

Your solid grounding in the practicalities of life, along [...]

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Of course, I am not all that well versed in Jane Austen, but well, sometimes I like to do these little memes anyway. Thanks to Kasia, for posting the link on her blog.

You are Catherine Morland of Northanger Abbey! You love a good Gothic romance - so much, in fact, that you’ll fool yourself into [...]

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Okay, those screams you have been hearing for the past two weeks?  The screams of frustration?  Those have been mine.  I’ve been reading St. Augustine, and he’s been driving me absolutely bonkers.  Yup, that’s right.  I’m having issues with a saint.  So, obviously I’m going to get some extra time in Purgatory for that.  I’m [...]

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