Flights of Lunacy

Sometimes the beauty of language just halts me flat -- causing eyes and brain and heart to pause at a turn of phrase, a paragraph or, in thi...

A friend posted the above to my Facebook page several days ago, and -- while it is a bit of an exaggeration -- I had to laugh at how accu...

I recently returned from a too-short but much needed week at the beach. I had, not intentionally, waited until the end of August to use...

Five days stand between me and a week at the beach, and I can't wait. The last time I went to the beach was for about two hours on a clo...

Well this has certainly been languishing, hasn't it? Anyhow, I've just finished Harper Lee's "Go Set A Watchman," an...

Not too long ago, I was cleaning out my voice mail and, as I went through them (there were something like 21 just hanging out; clearly the c...

It seems I have yet to find a way to balance journaling and blogging, because it seems while I'm perfectly capable of doing one (to the...

I wrote 70-plus pages in a journal during the two weeks Mom and I were in Scotland (despite our breakneck pace through the country and esse...

And that's just one side... Departure day, T-minus 5 hours and 10-odd minutes, give or take. The reality that Mom and I are leaving ...

It had been far, far (vastly!) too long since I was last on a retreat, and so last (Memorial Day) weekend's Florida State University Cat...

The Poet T.A. Daly The truest poet is not one Whose golden fancies fuse and run To moulded phrases, crusted o'er With flash...

I only have today off for my "weekend" since I subbed out working Monday in exchange for having next Saturday off for the CSU reun...

One thing I love about Ann Voskamp's writing on her blog, "A Holy Experience," is her honesty. I try to be honest when I wri...

I'm generally an up-beat, positive person overall, but, like most people, I definitely have my moments of angst, and that whiny quote fr...

I'm female, so over-analyzing things is in my nature. Worse still, my B.A. is in Creative Writing, so I essentially have a degree in e...

I've wanted to take part in Jennifer Fulwiler's  7 Quick Takes link-up for a while now (and have no discernible reason for why I...

Unpacking This past weekend, I bought a new lawn mower. I'd tried to keep my lawn maintained with an old-school reel mower (which also ...

At mass yesterday, the pastor at my church, Fr. John, started off his homily by telling us about the part he played in an eighth-grade love...

I have this running list in my head of books I'd like to reread and figured it was about time I set the list down somewhere before it be...

I hope you had a wonderful Easter Sunday with friends and family! As my mother was out of state visiting one of my brothers, I spent Easter...