" January hundreds of thousands of young Americans will exercise their right to protest. We live in a country where this right is guaranteed and protected. This right is held especially sacred, the right to free speech; to gather and speak our minds, to disagree and to hold those in power accountable to us, the […]
Advent, a time to nest
Like many women when I am expecting a baby I feel an almost uncontrollable urge to nest. I make long lists of household things I want accomplished and call many family meetings. The children have learned to avoid these meetings like the plague and the mere sight of my roly-poly self heading toward my husband […]
Go Outside
Summer on Long Island. Are we lucky or what? We live in a summer kind of place. Quite frankly I find Long Island a trial to bear in the winter, all that sleet and freezing rain. But summer is a different story. There are all those beaches and parks, nature trails and bike paths. All […]
The Word Made Flesh
Good morning friends. I wanted to make everyone aware of a wonderful event that is to take place here on Long Island in June at which myself and many of my writing colleagues will be found . Drum roll please…. The Catholic Writers of Long Islandpresents “The Word Made Flesh: A Day of Encouragement and […]
Holiness is what we need
"Eight years ago I was first moved to cry at the presence of Christ in the Eucharist. It was the Easter Vigil and my husband had, for the first time, received the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ. I was sitting in the congregation holding my two-week old baby girl close to my […]
