Yesterday morning towards the end of church the priest saying mass asked the fathers who were there to stand to receive a special Father’s Day Blessing. He asked that the rest of us extend our hands to join him in praying for the fathers in our parish community and those who were with as visitors. […]
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My friend Loribeth at The Road Less Traveled has this wonderful quote listed on the sidebar of her blog: I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking […]
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Last weekend Bob took me out to dinner and to see a play at the Steppenwolf Theatre here in Chicago. It was my Mother’s Day gift and our first date night, just the two of us, in awhile. I had wanted to see the play for some time, as my parents (who have a “subscription” to Steppenwolf, kind of like season tickets […]
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Good morning! After reading and commenting on most of last week’s Perfect Moment Monday blog entries, I was struck by how a number of them seemed to have a common theme. It was a theme that Perfect Moment Monday founder/facilitator Lori at Write Mind Open Heart blogged about and so aptly used to title her post, “The Promised […]
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Recently Abby and I were driving to pick up Sean from one of his after school programs when “100 Years” by Five for Fighting came on the radio. I have really liked that song ever since I first heard it years ago and found myself connecting again with the various ages in the verses as […]
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Greetings! I am writing three different versions of this post/note/update in three different places online. Of course one is here on my blog (that you are reading right now) and the other two are for Facebook and our CarePage. For those reading it on Facebook and on our CarePage, it may the first time many […]
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