A lot is being made of Pope Francis’ statements about the Catholic church needing to stop obsessing over same-sex marriage and abortion and needing to return to the basic messages of Christ’s love and caring for those in need. This is a good message, and it needed to be said to the Catholic leadership by…
I was going to start with, “It’s been a long time since I’ve thought about my own suicide,” but that is not true. The thoughts come whenever I feel I am not loved and accepted by those whose love and acceptance I deeply desire. That has been the case since I was a teen. Before…
I am re-reading Thomas Merton’s "The Seven Storey Mountain" for the first time in well over a decade, and I am chuckling at (and skimming through, when my patience is short) some of it. He sure waxed poetic (in an overbearing kind of way) about his view of people and places through the lens of…
In case you have not noticed, Facebook has a real overshare issue, in that it defaults to the assumption you want the whole world to know all of your business. A friend and I talked about it this afternoon, and a couple of facts came out of our conversation that other people might not have…
When Ariane Hunter announced the release of her ebook, "The Inspired Way", I immediately downloaded it to my Nook. Then I forgot about it. Yesterday, in the process of channeling my unexplained desire for an iPad into gratitude for my Nook, I rediscovered the book. Am I ever glad I did! In this book 22…
