A few minutes ago, I received an email from a good friend who is about to experience the inevitable as it pertains to our children — separation anxiety. You may recall I wrote about that in a post from March of last year called…
Category: Original Stories
5 Minutes
My office neighbor, who is responsible for, among other things, making me ponder things some days to the point of headache, asked me just yesterday: “If at the end of your life when you face God you had five minutes with Him, what would…
…there’s no app for that!
I was at Disney the other day and saw a “Today I Feel” magnet board with Disney character faces on it expressing different feelings. You know so you can choose whatever emotion you are feeling on any particular day and frame it within the movable…
Lent 2010
Hard to believe another season of Lent is upon us. But tomorrow morning, as us Christians awake to Ash Wednesday, we embark once again on another journey of reflection, penance, fasting, and…
For those who love…
We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we…
Heaven forbid!
I wonder if all those people opposing a commercial that promotes and celebrates life lifted a finger to support, either materially or spiritually, those souls perishing in Haiti after the earthquake. Their little regard…
Reminiscing About Baby Food
Couple of days ago I was at the grocery store with my daughter and her boyfriend. As usual, as soon as we came in they went their own way in search of the items they wanted to stuff my cart with. I turn the aisle and…
The Year in Review
Family and friends, as we spot the end of 2009 on the horizon, we look back, take stock, and begin looking forward to what’s to come in 2010 and beyond. To some extent it has seemed like we’ve been stuck in 2008, as this year did not produce any…
Black or Purple?
For many people Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, marks the beginning of the Christmas season. A period during which many of us tend to spend much energy preparing materially for a time of year that should have nothing to do with worldly goods and instead everything to do with…
To be, or not to be…
Thanksgiving — a time to take stock of all we have and express our gratitude for all our blessings. Except right now for a lot of people that just seems…