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Someone Always Sees

Today I was standing at the sing washing dishes when I observed a squirrel in the backyard. I looked out to see this little guy furtively looking around. Then, when he felt the coast was clear, he...

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Am I Ready for Faith?

Mark 10: 17-30 17And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”18And Jesus said to him, “Why do you...

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Glory Days?

You can take the girl out of Jersey but you can’t take Jersey out of the girl. True confession: I’m a Jersey girl. Not the Snooki kind of Jersey girl, far from it, but Jersey in the sense that it’s my...

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The Ocean

I have recently had some very vivid dreams involving the ocean. Nothing frightening or anything that might make a therapist’s mouth salivate in anticipation of interesting analysis, more like...

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Judge Not

I have been part of a “Mom’s of Young Children” group since moving back to my city. One of the many activities they do is to meet for a faith study each week. I call it a faith study and not a Bible...

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One Step Forward Two Back

Just when I think I have this whole single mom thing down, I realize I don’t.  I thought that life was chugging along fairly well. There are changes on the horizon for us that are exciting.  But I am...

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Spirit Crushing Loneliness

Today is the day I’ve been dreading for a few weeks now. It marks the 13th anniversary of my first date with My Love. We were one of those sickening couples that marked the anniversary of everything –...

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Fed Up

Apparently I am not living for my children. This is what my mother told me. Her exact words to me were, “We’ve been praying that a switch will flip for you soon so that you can start living for your...

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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! I hope that this year for you is one filled with grace and peace! I am truly hoping that this year will bring a measure of grace to me (especially in parenting) and peace. One...

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A Wedding Tale

Often times, people say “begin at the beginning,” but I’d rather not. Today I want to begin in the middle of the first chapter of our relationship – our wedding day. This day, 12 years ago, February...

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Marking the Days

When My Love and I were in our early years, we were one of those sappy couples that acknowledged every special day in our relationship. The anniversary of the first day we exchanged emails on-line. Our...

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Getting Easier But…

As the days and weeks go by, the days between sadness bouts lengthen.  At nearly one year, I think I am finally reaching the “Acceptance” stage of grief.  My Love really is not coming home.  I really...

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Looks Like I Made It

The year of “firsts” is over. Part of me wants to say “woo-hoo” and yet that doesn’t seem quite the appropriate sentiment in light of the fact that I am talking about my husband’s death. But I made it....

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7 Posts in 7 Days Challenge

This week I am participating in a blogging challenge to write seven posts in seven days, beginning tomorrow July 22, 2013. I am pretty excited to about the challenge and to see if I can actually carry...

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Being Honest

A few months ago I met with my spiritual director and he suggested I read the book Tools Matter by Mary Margaret Funk. (I will be writing a post about more of this book when I am done with it.) I was...

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My Grandma

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to...

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He Saw Me

Monday night I went out to dinner with all three of my siblings. My two sisters were taking off the next day for Asia. One will stay there because it’s where she lives and works, the other will be back...

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We Interrupt Our Regular Program – Updated 7/25/13

  Updated: By 1am Thursday morning we’d had enough of being hot and not sleeping. I called my dad and told him we were coming over there, packed up blankets and kids, then drove 20 miles to their...

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Characters

I love a good character, don’t you? I have a couple of authors that I read, fiction writers, that have crafted such interesting characters that if I saw them coming toward me on the street, I would...

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A Multitude of Blessings

I was looking through my Handbook of Prayers last Sunday in Mass. My husband had a tattered up, much used copy, and he gave me a copy some time before he died. I marked off some of my favorites and...

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