I have wanted to write this post since I started my blog. After all, if I am going to have a blog that occasionally deals with Catholicism, shouldn't I include the story of my own conversion? The problem is that I don't know where to start my story. There seem to have been many events in my life tha...

Just a thought. That’s all it takes to make it a reality. Some thoughts are weaker than others, but that one seed that’s planted in someone’s mind that may be detrimental to both that person and other innocent people.    An Alabama gunmen kills 10 people and himself in a shooting spree. S...

Sometimes working from home can really do damage to your nervous system. First, I woke up to the sounds of constant banging and tearing apart of something larger than life, from the apartment below. My neighbors are renovating their place and there is absolutely not one moment of silence until after...

Move along, people, there’s nothing to see here. My week in the Bahamas has left me full of wordlessness, short on commentary, drained of snark and every time I try to summon a few meager paragraphs about our vacation I open my pictures folder, blink a few times at the teal ocean and, I’...

Okay. It's finally happening. The suspense thriller fiction novel I've written called "The Tenth Session" is going up for auction with some very fine publishing houses. An exciting dream coming true. I believe that persistence is key in reaching any goal. I'm not always successful in things that I s...

This is a really good idea: Why is this important? It’s important because California voted to get rid of marriage rights for our community. It’s important because 29 other states have done the same. It’s important because LGBT people get fired from their jobs just for being who the...

The day hasn’t even started for me and yet, I dread walking out of my very own door. It started at 4:30 am, when I’m about to head downstairs to grab some paperwork that I had left in my car. I opened my door to go outside and I felt something hit my midsection and then heard it flop on the floo...

Oh, am I so happy to finally have a great pita recipe. You see, pitas themselves aren’t hard to make. Most recipes very closely, or even exactly, resemble a standard pizza dough and they’re not much more difficult to assemble. No, the trouble comes when you pop them in the oven and pray ...

It’s absolutely amazing how Facebook has brought old friends or even just old acquaintances back into communication again. Those who knew me well when I was a child also knew my family while growing up.  After yesterday’s post, a close old friend had written me an email asking me how my father ...

Wordless Wednesday . . . Last Wednesday I took a long walk and finally saw both Red-tailed Hawks. I wanted to catch them in the same frame but she was playing hard-to-get....