Hanging in there In an ongoing effort to clean out, organize, and clean up our apartment, I dropped several donations off at various pla...

I was immediately intrigued by the title of this book.   I’ve read a fair amount about Blessed Pope John Paul II and I’ve read and studied...

     Today the weather was gorgeous so I decided to bring a few of my grandmother’s favorite foods over so we could share a picnic lunch o...

A Skewed View      Heck, I don’t think she’d even deign to visit our apartment. The brick building’s nothing special to look at—there...

     Though it is rather frightening to look outside and see the strong winds and heavy rain bending the trees, I realize that I’m not as ...

-1- Earthquakes, aftershocks, and hurricanes! oh my!   This was definitely the biggest earthquake I remember ever having felt.   This one r...

     It would be really funny to take a close-up picture or two of the front of my car, where there is now a large community of smashed ...

Today a parent whose child was in my Nature Camp last week told me this morning that her daughter’s friend, also in my camp, had informe...

-1- Can I Keep Him?! This was a question I had after meeting Kevin and becoming friends with him.   I still think about it at times when he...

Looking out over the lake, especially at sunset, I can picture a number of different photos I’ve taken here over the years.   Lately, I’v...

Children and nature are two wonderful sources for reminders of how to hope in the Lord, have faith like a child, experience new growth, an...

Last week at Nature Club, I taught the kids the how to fold a square piece of paper into a little box . We counted the number of triangle...

     A few months ago John, our brother in Christ, made a pilgrimage to Emmitsburg, Maryland. I was more than a little confused when he pres...

     Once again I’ve been led to pick up a book that my favorite brother in Christ loaned me a while back at exactly the time God knew I ...

     Lately, many kids at school have spent the majority of their time on the playground searching for caterpillars. Because some 3-5 yea...