Friendship

My decade older friends warned me that track was the worst parental spectator sport of the bunch.  You sit in the stands for eight-plus hours in sometimes extreme elements (first you’re cold, [...]

Christ came to earth with a specific mission:  the God-made man would die for our sins to save us.  Not only the divine have an earthly mission; we all do.  Attending a silent retreat zones us in [...]

It took me five pairs of destroyed shoes to make the connection.  It was hard to determine who  was the “dumb dog” in the Weber home: me or Daisy.  As  Daisy lounged on  my bedroom floor ripping [...]

Five canines have found their way in my heart and earthly life.  But Bernard, Tootsie, Huey, Wink, and Cleavey didn’t hold a candle to our black puppy Daisy, who just turned one year old today. [...]

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 was painful to watch.  Every move I saw my daughter take, I felt stung. Although, it probably wasn’t that noticeable to the rest of the crowd.  At our K4J Club mission I saw Gianna pull away, [...]

As our youngest entered kindergarten I gain empathy for those families with multiple, older kids moving in all different directions on weekends for various kids’ activities.  Last weekend was one [...]

Off to the second day of soccer practice for our kindergartener Benjamin, Gianna excitedly and carefully packed several toys to play with her classmate Kim, a sibling of Benjamin’s buddy and [...]

I had my first mom-to-mom conversation over a friendship issue with my soon-to-be 3rd grader, Gianna. I witnessed uncharitable behavior on the part of my daughter’s peer towards Gianna. Because [...]

Friday night at the Ignation Silent Retreat greeted me with a pleasant surprise. A friend I had invited to the retreat last weekend unexpectedly came. Before she left, she hugged me and thanked [...]