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Raising a pre teen boy in a regular world…and failing. I asked Levi if I could share what happened this past weekend, and he said yes. It’s really easy to share all the victories on social media. The slow days, the peace, the success, the humor, the vacations, the holy moments. It’s much harder to…
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In today’s first reading from the book of Numbers, the Spirit came to rest on the seventy elders that had been outside the camp with Moses. As I was sitting in mass listening to this, the next line of the reading really struck me. “Now two men, one named Eldad and the other Medad, were not…
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It’s football season. That used to mean nothing to me. We didn’t really watch football growing up, and my son, Levi, wasn’t interested in it until he turned 10. Then, very quickly, we became a football family. Sundays are different now. We were nervous at first to give up Sunday mass and do the Saturday…
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There has been a lot of grief recently. It’s ok, I’m not afraid of grief anymore. For years, the only option for me has been to just do whatever I can to make life good for my son. I don’t regret that for a single second, but the rest has caught up to me. What…
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When praying about what I should write a blog on, honestly, not much came to mind. Either nothing at all, or every possible topic under the sun. So I tried narrowing it down. What am I good at? What do I have experience/knowledge about that may be unique, interesting? Well, my first thought is always…