An interesting news story: a serious virus in China that has devastated and closed down a very large city, Wuhan. It has now spread to some other Asian countries as people have traveled. It’s on the news so I am following it. At one point, I access a map that shows the spread via … [Read more...]

The year 2020 has been an incredible roller coaster of personal and public experiences. I began the year with a serious car accident that kept me bedridden for three months. It was not the way I had expected to spend the season of Lent but I soon realized that I was being offered a gift I never … [Read more...]

In an address to Bishops in Florence, Italy, in November 2015, Pope Francis said, “We are not living in an era of change; we are living in a change of era.” When I read those words, I found them remarkably freeing. I have lived all of my life in an era of change. I was three years old when my … [Read more...]

In 1978 God led me from the campus of Slippery Rock University to the campus of the Sisters of St.Joseph in Baden. I recall the feeling of "falling in Love" as I walked onto the premises. Over the past 40+ years that Love has only deepened. I recall a song that I used to teach children “Love is … [Read more...]