Snip! I held the garden clippers in my hand and watched the branch drop to the ground amongst the fallen...

I held back tears behind my closed door. I had been home less than a day and had lost it...

“Place your husband in Abraham’s place and yourself in Sarah’s, especially in the book of Hebrews where it talks about...

The third alarm sounds from across the room, the one set to get us out of bed. My husband gets...

The snow was finally melting away as I took my daily walk outside, quarantined to my yard and driveway. Warmth...

The waves lapped on the rocky beach as my children waded into the clear mountain lake. As I sat reading...

Pain radiated through my legs as our parish priest anointed my Lyme disease-ridden body on my eyelids, ears, nostrils, lips,...

I walked into the cafeteria, trying to hold myself together. Several of my classmates ran up to me, “What did...

“Who’s that baby?” my eldest asked. I glanced over at my parents’ photo album. It was me, four months old,...

I often imagine my great-great grandmother courageously sailing to the United States with my great-great grandfather, an eighteen-month-old daughter, and...

The cool September air blew gently into the room as my husband opened the back door to leave for work....

I rocked my son for hours in the dark the first autumn of his life. He spent those long nights...

The familiar feel of the Host was cool on my tongue. Entering me physically and spiritually, I was completely filled...