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For quality control I’ve been my own student in my own “Faith Based Revenue Boosting Program”.  It is odd that something I’ve written created such epiphanies when applying it. An early mentor [...]

Our family has attended all 13 of the Mid-west Family Catholic Conferences in Wichita each August. With each succeeding year our attendance has segued from a nice-to-attend to an essential [...]

The actual moment was worse than my psyche would allow me to comprehend while sitting in my pastor’s office. There for the meeting with him and the principal about having the Kids for Jesus (K4J) [...]

Shortly after my first test in my journey of consecrating myself to Jesus through Mary, I received my second test, which pertained to my husband. When he’s on his game, there are so many things I [...]

I did a double take when on day 4 of my Marian consecration, Father Gaitley outlined one of the four ways we are to “give ourselves entirely to Our Lady, in order to belong entirely to Jesus [...]

I have been a Catholic long enough to know that if you really want to be the best wife, mother, and woman you can be you have to stick with the winners. And the biggest winner is Queen of the [...]

If it weren’t for Memorial Day, I probably would not be prompted to visit my brother’s grave. Walking in the cemetery to Daman’s gravestone right across from the university isn’t overly emotional [...]

In my twenties, we became good friends with a Jewish couple.  As guests to their synagogue and home, I was fascinated by the meat plates, dairy plates, the menorah and breads, all connected to [...]

With all the hullabaloo over the Constitutionality of Obamacare in the chamber of the Supreme Court this week, many have focused on the “men and women justices in black”. But on Holy Thursday we [...]

Scurrying around to pack my bags, make sack dinners, and finalize arrangements for the family while I will be gone start to feel like a little taste of hell right before my annual three-day [...]