The Road To Kingdom Come

I am sitting here in some discomfort with the best of intentions and a lot of distractions. Yesterday, I was at an auto parts store and as I bent over to see what was on a particular shelf I felt that familiar and dreaded grabbing pain in my lower back. It took the breath right [...]

Last Thursday I attended the annual Christmas pageant for my daughter’s grade school. It is held at our parish church and is basically the same presentation every year, yet each year it is new and quite charming. Of course, if one of your children is part of the show it is always satisfying but the antics [...]

There are four people that come to mind when I think of devotion to the Blessed Mother. They would be each of my grandparents. My mother’s parents were Irish immigrants. My grandfather was a carpenter and he and my grandmother lived directly across the street from the Catholic church that served both my mother’s and [...]

I received a comment from m2 yesterday and it prompted me to stop in at my own address and see what is going on. And obviously nothing is going on if I haven’t been here.
To be honest, I have been so distracted by my job that time has just been racing by. I was shocked when [...]