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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

An old friend privately sent me a note in response to a post I had made on Facebook.  I was proclaiming how the teachings of the Catholic Church, such as the prohibition of the use of artificial [...]

My husband and I were in a particularly good space when we attended the family Wichita Bar Association event at the Sedgwick County Zoo. My spouse Joe was commenting on how little he had [...]

You know it’s a bad sign when it is two weeks past the fall back weekend of daylight savings time and two-thirds of your clocks are still an hour ahead. Some are an hour and a few minutes ahead; [...]

In my three previous blogs, “Learning from the Giraffes (Part 1)”, “Learning from the Giraffes (Part 2)”, and “Keeping the 2-Headed Dragon Out of Your Marriage” , I progressively discuss the [...]

I have a red three-headed dragon puppet in my office that I regularly use with kids and families who see me.  In my previous blogs, Learning from the Giraffes Part 1 and Part 2, I reference how [...]

In my blog “Learning from the Giraffes Part 1”, I discussed how married couples can learn from the communal feeding patterns of the male and female giraffes that help maximize food resources. As [...]

At the end of the summer, our family attended the Wichita Bar Association Family Night at the Zoo. Each of our kids received a zoo key. The zoo key could be inserted into a number of different [...]