Power outage; Power restored

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Lost

We had a lot of good discussions about Lost here over the years, so let’s relive old days.

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Mid Century

Picture: Felt on felt, made by my paternal grandmother for me. Table: bought this week from the daughter of the recently deceased owner. Picked up in lobby of senior living apartments.

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Live from Long Island…

Friday  morning, artist Ann Kissane Englehart, illustrator of the book of Pope Benedict XVI’s conversation with First Communion children, Friendship with Jesus (original blog post here) will be on the program Everyday Faith produced by Telecare, the television station for the Diocese of Rockville Centre. (Here’s a pdf of the entire book) (There’s a discount [...]

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Mother’s Day

My own personal mother (who died in 2001, 4 days after Joseph was born, for those not keeping track)  always scoffed at Mother’s Day, claiming that it was all just a means to assuage guilt for ignoring mothers the rest of the 364 days of the year. I’ve pretty much followed in her footsteps. I’m [...]

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Pillar

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Obligatory “State of Social Media” post

Over the past …er..almost nine years (hate to even think about it!), I’ve been interviewed here and there about blogs, etc. The interviewer usually has a rather breathless view about it all…How are BLOGS going to change the way we communicate and commune as Christians? As Catholics? Hmmm? I’ve always (to my recollection) brushed away [...]

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Just remember…

(Credit – from a friend who has a private blog.  If anyone knows who to credit for creating it, let me know.)

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Finally!

About three years ago, I think, a blog reader wrote to me with an idea. Here name was Ann, she was an artist living in New York, and she was as grateful for the papacy and wisdom of Pope Benedict XVI as I was. She had been struck by the Holy Father’s exchange with First [...]

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Harvest

Clipping some sage leaves for pasta w/sage & brown butter & Parm-Reg. Sage leaves are in Estate Sale buy of the week, which made me stupidly happy since it’s so insignificant – 2 small prep bowls, “Ultima” china – .25/per, plus 4 small oval restaurantware plates. Love restaurantware.  This estate sale (I ran by Friday [...]

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