I imagine you’ve had this experience: You make a plan and then watch it fall apart. That happened to me this week. I had my Advent blog series all planned out. I started with this idea of writing about Jesus’ challenging messages, and posted for two weeks on that....
Yesterday we went to visit our Venezuelan friend at the Eloy Detention Center. She celebrated her birthday last week. We sent her a card and spoke to her on the phone, but it’s always better to see someone in person, and I can imagine it’s tough to be in a mood to...
The Grand Canyon celebrated one hundred years as a national park last week. As I mentioned in my prior post, we visited recently—two weeks before all the centennial festivities. While it might have been fun to be there for the celebration, somehow that century seems...
As some of you may know (especially if you’ve followed this blog for a while), I had a large and thriving vegetable (and fruit!) garden when we lived in New Mexico. It’s been more than two years since we moved to Arizona and, for a variety of reasons, I had not...
Happy Liturgical New Year! Advent begins today. All around us, the pace of The Holidays threatens to overwhelm the intention of Advent, which is traditionally about waiting. Unless you’re remembering waiting in long retail lines, most of us tend to think about The...