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Charity begins at home.  But sometimes family holiday interactions poke like the needles of a porcupine rather than soothe like warm fuzzies.  For some past unpleasant contact can shy you from [...]

Having Ian, Gianna, and Benjamin out of school half day for the start of Christmas break created a relaxing afternoon for the kids and me.  The boys were in their rooms fighting army battles [...]

The women in my parish seemed to have synchronized their pregnancies — several new babies arriving on the scene every three weeks, with two other ladies hours away from popping.  In contrast, we [...]

Devout Catholics  invest in marriage for the long run— in good times and bad.  It often takes a lifetime to grow in virtue in preparation to meet our maker, and  sometimes a lifetime isn’t [...]

I am usually an emotional person who’s easily drawn into tears out of joy or sadness. So my flat response to the 28 dead—mostly children—at  Sandy Hook school disturbed me.  Could it be because [...]

As I woke up to get everyone ready for our traditional K4J Blessed the Baby Jesus celebration at Gaudete Sunday mass, I was dumbfounded with where the first three weeks of Advent went.  Each day [...]

Our neighbors two doors down got a labrador mix puppy Annabell about six months before we got our black lab Daisy.  As Daisy grew, I could relate to seeing Annabell, bursting with energy, walking [...]

It’s not my tradition to be glued to the tube for the Heisman Trophy Award Show, but this year was different.  I’m a K-State Wildcat alumna and one of our own, Collin Klein, was one of the three [...]

Just two days ago I empathized and encouraged the subscribers to my ezine to be more active posting on the Catholic Women’s Guide to Healthy Relationships Facebook fanpage. I wrote about my own [...]

In the previous blogs I mentioned a couple of the “inner games” (mina to link previous posts) that operate when people have issues with weight control: not being concerned and being overly [...]