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My tulips are poking through the leaves on the south side of the house. The single digit temps last night did not seem to harm them. Same...

Fans of the book, The Doctor of Bellechester, have been anticipating the arrival of Dr. Harold Merton’s new associate, Dr. Mary Elizabeth...

The Catholic Spirit, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and. Minneapolis, recently sent their photographer to take...

Now you can enjoy an award winning cozy book for your summer reading pleasure. I'm very grateful to be honored with these awards from the...

This was the last bloom of the season. I found it huddled next to the east side of the house. By this time we had already endured several...

I am a dreamer. I bet you are a dreamer too. I am not talking about the dreams that come to us in the night. Here I am speaking about the...

Do you have any guesses as to the meaning of those three letters? If you attended a Catholic school in the early 1960's, you might have a...

With the exception of ten years in the 1980's, I have lived in the same house my entire life. It is the home that my family moved into...

A few weeks ago, I attended an event where I didn't know a soul. As I am a shy creature by nature, there was was a great deal of anxiety...

In the movie, My Fair Lady, Eliza Doolittle says, "Words, words, words, I am so sick of words." Don't you feel like that sometimes? It...

Lent began on Wednesday, March 2. Any observance that draws millions of people of many Christian religions to church in the middle of...

The older I get, the more I appreciate the season of winter. Since I am retired, I can meet winter on my own terms. I do not have to...

This weekend, I will be proclaiming the readings at Mass. The first reading, (Isaiah 6:1-8) reminds me of a poem I wrote sixteen years...

It was a year ago, January 31, 2021, when 2 little bunnies came to live with us. My nephew Phillip who shares my home ran across a...

Yes, I do live in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. And I do have a twin sister, but no, neither of us play professional baseball. In fact, as...