Out of sight out of mind. Ay, how I despise that phrase! I think it’s even worse in Spanish — “ojos que no ven corazón que no siente” — eyes that don’t see heart that doesn’t feel — Yuk….
Category: Original Stories
Walking the Talk
This Tuesday my son will be receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation. In preparation, this past weekend he attended a retreat given…
I Went to That Game With Your Grandmother
A couple of weeks ago I got to go to a football game with my son Danny. But not just any football game, “THE” football game. The BCS Championship bowl…
365 new ones!
Family and friends – We are hours away from welcoming a new year…PHEW!! 2008 has been a duzy that’s for sure….
Geez, we should all be so disabled.
I have this student, let’s call him Joe. He’s kind of slow, a bit mentally challenged; enough to be labeled with a disability….
How That Book Cover Totally Threw Me Off
I should know better than to judge one of them. I DO know better. After all, one of the things I discuss with my students about the issue of judgment is the predicament it…
Invoking Those Interceders
The other day my son asked me to help him with a project on saints that he was asked to do for his religion class. He had to choose…
Stop Thinking This is All There Is
I read something the other day that struck a chord. Well, much of what I read does, but this in particular goes to how I think many…
Let me tell you something…
…my friends, in the words of (and a flashback to 80’s TV is needed here) Sergeant Esterhaus, “Hey, let’s be careful out there.” Because it is a dangerous world we are living in….
Discovering the perks in our routines…a New Year’s resolution?
That customary, unvarying, habitual, everyday, familiar, same ole routine. For people who crave change, that can be a dreadful thing. Even for the methodically-inclined OCP types as myself, and who are…