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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Sometime over the past few weeks I became aware of an awesome project that Angie from Still Life with Circles had started on her blog. She began by writing a very thoughtful and moving post about where she is at in her grief and her life right now, two years, five months and counting since […]
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Today I ran in my 4th “Ridge Run” 5K race in our neighborhood. Prior to 5 years ago, in 2006, when I trained for and ran in my first 5K race, I had never run for pleasure or exercise before. Beyond that I didn’t understand or appreciate why anyone else would choose to do so. […]
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I won’t be sleeping in tomorrow and my family won’t be serving me breakfast in bed. But this isn’t because Bob and the kids aren’t thoughtful and wouldn’t do just about anything for me on the second Sunday in May every year. The reason is that I will be waking up early, along with about […]
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Last night Bob and I finally saw the Oscar winning movie The King’s Speech. We enjoyed the movie, especially in light of all the recent news coverage of the Royal Wedding last week. We finished watching the movie on a DVD a little after 10:00 p.m. (CST) For this reason we did not have a regular […]
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