Occasionally, I use a popular fitness app to work out that’s definitely designed more for the younger set. The instructor, for example, sometimes talks about her new nail color for the day (can you imagine having time to change your nail color daily?), and I sheepishly look at my chewed nails and un-manicured toes andRead the whole post >>
O Come All Ye Faithful (and all ye faithless, too)
When the Nativity figures aren’t scattered throughout our house, I usually find that one of my children has set them up something like this. Now if it were up to (anal) me, the people and myriad animals would be set up in a more orderly fashion and spread out a bit more, but there’sRead the whole post >>
Be Jesus’ Skin
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta said, “I am God’s pencil, a tiny bit of pencil with which He writes what He likes.” We are all God’s pencils no matter how He chooses to use our gifts and our lives to carry out His will. There have been too many times in my life when I haveRead the whole post >>
Healed
At 7:30 a.m. EST tomorrow, my mom will be under the knife. She has brain surgery scheduled for Monday to – we hope and pray – cure her trigeminal neuralgia. After exhausting her medication options and dealing with some pretty awful side effects (e.g., loss of vision, personality changes, extreme lethargy, etc.), she decided toRead the whole post >>
You’re Turning Into Your Mother
Recently, someone asked me how my mom does it – how she always seems to be filled with happiness instead of self-pity or fear when she grapples with so many health problems and chronic pain. “She’s a real stoic,” the person said. My mom would tell you she’s nothing of the sort. She would sayRead the whole post >>