Carry On
I was in the habit of talking to myself using this phrase: “What’s wrong with you, Paula?” When something didn’t work out, when I messed up, when I thought I should have known better I
December 7, 2024
I was in the habit of talking to myself using this phrase: “What’s wrong with you, Paula?” When something didn’t work out, when I messed up, when I thought I should have known better I
Do you believe in good and evil? Some days it’s hard to be in the world and not see these two competing forces. It seems there is a constant combat: the forces of good and
What I really want is to understand. I mean, I want to understand people and how things can get into such an awful mess. Is that too much to ask? I realize I won’t like
I wrote this poem last week. The destruction from Hurricane Helene was heavy on my mind. It reminded me that you just never know. Instead of feeling hopeless, maybe we let this simple fact teach
You just never know how life can change, and dramatically, from one week to the next. Hurricane Helene was expected to be a devastating storm when it rolled into the Big Bend of Florida on
This is the opening line in a story on CNN by Oscar Holland dated August 29, 2024: “A 4-year-old boy accidentally smashed a Bronze Age jar at an archeological museum in Haifa, Israel.” Do you
Here is a quote by Saint Augustine from my desk calendar: “People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long course of rivers, at
On Monday evening I attended a funeral mass at the Basilica of St. Mary in Wilmington. The mass was held for Alexandra Angelis Brigantti Abraham, the granddaughter of our neighbors, Carmen and Victor. Her birthday
You cannot know a person’s story by just looking at them. You have no idea, based on looks, what another has endured or what they are experiencing at this moment in their life. Even when