Faith and Family
Faith and Family: The Joys and Challenges of Caregiving
Forever etched in my mind is an image of my oldest daughter, Maddie, sitting at the bedside of her grandma—my mom—at the hospice center shortly before my mom’s death.
Faith and Family: The Many Faces of Pilgrimage
Sometimes, we have to travel to places on our own. Those can be real-life destinations or they can be journeys inward.
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Let’s Reclaim Our Creativity
When I was younger, people thought my creativity was cute. As I grew up, it started to become a liability.
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Faith and Family: Where Technology and Humanity Meet
As a proud member of Gen X, I can remember life both before and after the boom of the Internet.
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Faith and Family: A Parental Gut Check
So many firsts and lasts flying at you can elicit a lot of emotions and reflection. It certainly has for me.
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Faith and Family: Lessons from the Road
Hanging in our house is a large corkboard map of the United States. On the board are various pins placed on locations across the country, each one marking a place to which we have traveled.
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Music is Prayer
Music was always around during my childhood. From hymns sung at Mass to my parents’ cassette tape collection of early rock and roll hits to piano lessons, there was no shortage of access to music for my four older brothers ...
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