Flights of Lunacy

For Lent this year, I decided to do two things, both of which came to me at the spur of the moment mere days before Ash Wednesday. Looking b...

I started this yesterday, but didn't get around to finishing. It was a busy birthday weekend, what with work, an outing with friends and...

I've been toying with the idea of writing a Valentine's Day-themed post for a few days now, and the focus has shifted several times....

When I was a girl, my mother was the one who always put the lights on our Christmas tree, which I realize now was probably because my dad ju...

"Do not let a day slip by without considering God's favors... Preserve them assiduously in the greatest possible purity and love th...

"No more waiting/Your love's exhaling" My breathe came in clouds, mingling with the moisture in the air that fell as condensa...

Last Friday, the pettiest things were driving me nuts at work -- down to the smoke-raspy, nasal-accented, New York tones of some coworkers...

Sometimes I forget I have this blog, and they I'll read someone else's and think "Oh yeah, I have one, too." A traditional...

Jealousy is a funny thing. I'm not jealous of people with vast amounts of money, or talents I don't possess. There is the occasional...

"I don't know why, but every time I'd read a book, I'd end up wanting to fall in love." - Seyyed Ebrahim Nabavi As any...

My goodness, it's been ages (I sense Sabrina, likely the only one who ever checks this anymore, dancing in her chair somewhere up Huntsv...

I was tagged by Sabrina , who has officially shamed me into posting on my blog for the first time in 9 months. Thanks B! :) The rules of the...

I couldn't publish my entire column on my trip to Louisiana last month in the paper, so here's the entire thing: One of my girlfrien...

In my first post (I think), I wrote about how I was blogging against type, for lack of a better phrase, since I'd always kept written jo...

Without a doubt, one of the biggest faith challenges I have is giving up control and trusting in God, especially when it comes to money trou...

Well, I hardly intended it to be close to a year between posts, but frankly, I had practically forgotten I had this blog. Oh, it was there i...

I certainly hadn't intended four months to go by in between posts! I don't think I could possibly do justice to everything that'...

"Do we all holy rites; Let there be sung Non nobis and Te Deum, The dead with charity enclos'd in clay." King Henry, Henry...

I have a picture leaning up against my computer monitor. It's a card depticting Pope John Paul II, greeting the crowds in New York on hi...

I'm a free-lance writer, and right now I'm working on a profile piece for the Florida Catholic. They're doing a special section ...