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Alone, cold, in a dark, eerie seminary, my paper shakes as I shiver from the combination of chilling winds and some understandable late night cemetery paranoia. I complete the simple steps of [...]

Do you know what hurt feels like? I mean the kind of hurt that you experience in your body? Recently, I suffered hurt that was a pain that penetrated my chest. It burned right above my sternum. [...]

An article in the Wichita Eagle questioned the safety of what modern cheerleading has become–pyramids three people-high and tiny teenage girls flipping their feet above their heads in the [...]

My psychologist dad recently witnessed my son’s uncooperativeness around homework.   Ian argued with me  whether he had a second set of flashcards to study, until he ultimately presented them [...]

Can not doing something actually help you get more done? A resounding answer would be “yes”. Last week my coach recommended I create a “Not Do Now List”. Writing down everything I will “not do [...]

My husband recently made a choice that hurt me. And I withdrew his nomination as 2012 Husband of the Year. And I wanted to withdraw much more.  But after a few days I did cool down. With time and [...]

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As our family struggles and strives to get on board with the whole middle school thing, we enlisted my dad to help. After Sunday mass we get together for our traditional extended family meal. [...]

I used to think that indulgences were just a taste of Catholic superstition from the middle ages, hocus pocus, and a black eye on the Church with the past corrupt practice of selling indulgences. [...]

On the drive home from school I had a disjointed conversation with my oldest as part of the painful adjustment for both of us to middle school.  It was a dialogue about an assignment that he got [...]