About 21 years ago our youngest daughter, Lillian, contracted a bronchial infection that almost took her life. She couldn’t breathe, she was intubated, and she lived in a special tent for 5 days in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at St. Vincent Hospital. She was only 18 months old. I remember holding her tiny body…
Category: Family
Oh, Little Girl…
I used to think that people who said that they were ‘seeking their inner child’ were tree-hugging, pot-smoking, yoga-ing, new age, boomer hippies. They might be. But I also think they may may be on to something. In my last post, “Going Dark to Let in Light“, I disclosed a short statement about my experience…
Happy Thanksgiving
As we begin the secular descent into holiday hell, which seems to have replaced the holy season of Advent and the Incarnation (Christmas), I reflect on those things that I’ve been blessed with: I consider the very simple, modest beginnings of our first home in the city, second-hand furniture, tiny yard, and lots of PB&J….
Catechism and the Necessary Memes
Have you ever heard something so stupid it made you think… “This deserves a meme”? I didn’t create the above meme but, “Thank you, whoever did”. It encapsulates those thoughts in my head when a DRE or youth leader says something stupid about the very ministry they are entrusted with. As someone who homeschooled their…



