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It’s soccer camp week this week. My oldest has pre-season training at George Mason University. My 15-year-old is training in Florida with the U-17 National Team. And I am driving back and forth to …
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August. It hangs in the air, doesn’t it? A long month — hot, heavy, humid. Summer is well-established, but the threat of fall lurks in the shortening evening shadows. For right now, it’s still …
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8/11/10
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It’s summertime and the living is easy — at least that’s the theory. Schedules are more relaxed; there is more time for leisure; our calendars aren’t crammed to overflowing. There are spaces, …
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There is something about the late spring and early summer that is literally bursting with hope. Whether it is in the face of a young bride, flushed with love and joyful anticipation, or the confident …
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6/23/10
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It happens every season, as predictably as the thunderstorms that sweep spring into summer. I sit with a nearly empty calendar in front of me and evaluate how I will spend my days. Some people call …
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6/2/10
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There is a unique quality about the time between Ascension and Pentecost, a time of jubilant celebration and breathless, expectant waiting. We rejoice with Jesus and, I think, for Jesus, that at last …
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5/19/10
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Sarah Anne is learning to walk. Since she is 18 months old, she comes to this skill much, much later than her siblings did. Some of them had been walking half their lives by now. They discovered …
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5/5/10
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I read that Laura Ingalls Wilder voiced grave concern over the invention of the telephone. She was worried that human conversation would be degraded and common kindness eroded because people would …
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One of our family’s fairly new Good Friday traditions is to begin the Divine Mercy novena, spending a small part of the sad day of the Lord’s passion looking forward to Mercy Sunday. The feast of …
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4/7/10
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The weather warms slightly. It’s light outside a little later in the day. The vestments turn to purple. Fast and abstinence become oft-repeated kitchen words. My children know. They know that …
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3/17/10
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