Not quite a baker’s dozen

Once I took a Reality Field Trip to Mexico with a fun group of students and parents. That trip took us shopping of course to a flea market. I stopped by a stall that had the most beautiful and simple Nativity scenes. Each figure was made of clay and each figure because they were hand [...]

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What I Do Want for Christmas

What I do want for Christmas are my grandmother’s Christmas “crumbs.” Let me explain. My mother’s mother lived in Alaska. For years Grandma sent from her kitchen in Alaska her own tutti-fruiti, rum balls, brownies, white anise cookies–what we lovingly called Christmas “crumbs.” She carefully boxed several boxes of fudge and brownies packed in popcorn. [...]

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Peace, Love, Hope, Joy

I love Advent and the anticipation of lighting each candle each week. Advent begins this November 27. As the Advent light increases, our own readiness for the Christmas season increases. God has already given us Peace, Love, Hope and Joy. All are renewed and will be born again in our lives this Christmas time. We [...]

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Traditions

This was a letter I wrote to my grandson earlier this school year to help him with a school project on Traditions. Dear A, Thank you for such a wonderful letter. It was so well written. I am so proud of your handwriting and the beautiful sentences you wrote. You asked me to write you [...]

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“What is Class?” II

I met him because he approached me. He walked into my room in August as I got ready for another school year. Who is this likeable, unassuming stranger who just walked in making himself at home in my room? I had just given birth to Daughter #1. I felt torn to be at school and [...]

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“What is Class?” I

“Class never runs scared. It is sure-footed and confident in the knowledge that you can meet life head on and handle whatever comes along. Jacob had it. Esau didn’t. Symbolically, we can look to Jacob’s wrestling match with the angel. Those who have class have wrestled with their own personal angel and won a victory [...]

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The Miracle of St. Francis

Right after Halloween on November 1 comes “All Saints Day.” On that day I cannot help but remember the following story. Many summers ago my aunt was moving from the family home where she and my uncle had raised their children, in favor of a smaller home in an effort to downsize and make other [...]

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The Story of a Benefactor

Benefactors are true and real. They invest their money wisely. They invest in people. I wrote a few weeks ago about a group of West Texas ranchers who invested in our daughter. Now here is a story about a woman whose family came from a completely different world, a woman who appears in The Proper [...]

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“Vous avez des postes aujourd’hui”©

The sweetest sound while living as a student in France was the voice of Sister Marie Therese announce “Vous avez une poste aujourd-hui.” (You have mail today.)  Sometimes I would look around quickly to check for sure she was really talking to me.  Assured that she was, I would go to my box and there [...]

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Two Rabbits in Wyoming…Ohio

As you may know I went on a business trip to Ohio.  The last part of my trip I opted to stay a few extra days with my old college friend who lives in Wyoming, OH.  This friend is very special to me.  Perhaps because we were both out of state freshmen and we both [...]

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