First of all, Happy New Year, and Feast of Mary, Mother of God! I love New Year and an opportunity for a fresh start. A chance to evaluate the previous year and look ahead to the year on the way. Because of this, I’m really into goals. Are you? I have given a lot of thought […]

Hey friends! I have a beautiful, challenging, and inspiring new podcast episode to share with you today. Stephanie, a wonderful podcast listener, emailed me with a RADICAL idea for a podcast episode: Praying the Rosary with your Husband. Daily. My husband and I are definitely not getting in a rosary together each and every day right […]

This morning I found myself choked suddenly with tears when “Away in a Manger” began to play on my Pandora Christmas channel. There were many tangled reasons behind those tears.  As I bent over a sink full of dishes and wept this morning, that simple, child-like song seemed to be the connecting point for so […]

A few days ago I wasn’t sure I would be publishing another post…or recording another podcast episode.  As you maybe already know, we lost our little Maximilian on Thanksgiving day. Whom I had carried in my womb for 20 weeks.  Losing a baby at 20 weeks is hard both physically and emotionally. And the week […]