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With my first book out the next month or two and conversations with my coach about what to expect, an uneasy feeling enveloped me. With the vision of increasing demands on my time with possible [...]

Today’s warm spring weather combined with last month of school triggered daydreaming of being at Rockwood pool with my family. Excited about my first year with proficient swimmers all tall enough [...]

High on the list of unpleasantries for Catholics striving for integration and authenticity is sticking with a faith principle that creates discord with a family member. I have such a dynamic in [...]

Those who think Catholicism is for prudes haven’t read Blessed Pope John Paul II’s encyclical “The Theology of the Body”. Details down to the physical design of our bodies intentionally [...]

The night before my final race in the YMCA Triathlon Cup series lingered later than I desired with preparations for our Sunday afternoon K4J Club, the activities of our oldest son and the friend [...]

On the final leg of the Wichita YMCA Triathlon Cup series, Sunday morning brought the last of my six sprint triathlons. I investigated masses in town that would accommodate my 9:30 am heat start [...]

While I was seated in a parking stall in the YMCA lot fiddling with my phone before my workout, an SUV began to turn the stall directly in front of me. A woman with several kids slowly turned her [...]

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 [...]

  Good Christian women are incorrectly stereotyped to be passive, internally-focused, cookie-baking volunteers. In reality Christian female role models identify problems in the culture and [...]

Mary Magdalene looked into the empty tomb saying, “Where did they put my Lord?” What if they never found him? What if Jesus never appeared to the 12, on the road to Emmaus, and the numerous other [...]