Lily Maiden

but as I'm sitting here taking care of emails and follow-up before leaving, this email just came in and I thought it was rather too time...

with the sound of music. Or at least, UW-Stevens Point will be! In a few hours, I'm off to the American Suzuki Institute and when I com...

Tonight, I spent some time at a nearby nursing home, visiting some dear souls there. One of them whom we've come to know is probably one...

From Dr. Alice von Hildebrand , one of my favorite theologian-philosophers... Let us take off our “secular” eyeglasses, and then we shall be...

Women's Farm Bureau Stand: the only place at the Fair (I think) that you can get fresh-baked pie! Me busy at the register (one of my ne...

The influence of applied femininity is, by any measure, incredibly determinative. In every culture, in every age, the power is awesome. And ...

Today, I enjoyed a precious afternoon with a dear, longtime friend. This "nurturing" time was a great blessing. I think it's e...

It's a term we use around here. There are only so many days one can take of a Fair, you know? Even if one is working almost the whole ti...

I know I've had too many unaccounted-for absences here as of late... truth is, this summer is flying by even quicker than I anticipated....

I've really been praying and thinking about what my role (aside from prayer, of course) is in preparing for the 2008 Elections. I notice...

One of the many highlights of our fabulous experience at the March for Life this year was experiencing a special preview of the movie BELLA...

No wonder our vocabulary, grammer skills, and critical thinking skills tend to be so, um, limited nowadays! 1/3 of high school graduates ne...

If you have not yet visited Sen. Sam Brownback's website, you absolutely must head right over ! And if you're like an awful lot of t...

I'm low on sleep at the moment, but reflective. It's one of those times when I feel as though I'm skimming across the "lake...

When it occured Sunday, the first thing I said was "I must blog that!" Since I didn't that day, here we are... Dad was speakin...

of late, as my sister kindly reminded me in a comment yesterday . :) The past two weeks have been a time of some real spiritual highs -- and...

Our Bishop J. Peter Sartain's columns in The Catholic Explorer are always wonderful, and I found this week's particularly thought ...

Yesterday was Sarah's Birthday! Here we were seventeen years ago... ...Here we are today I love you, dear sister!

Contemplation of the "Hands" reflection, simultaneous with joyful anticipation of this coming weekend's priestly ordination o...

"The titles given to the Holy Spirit must surely stir the soul of anyone who hears them, and make him realise that they speak of nothin...