My Uncle Si died today. He was 91. I am in Hawaii visiting Ian and will be unable to attend the visitation or funeral. Mom and I were just talking about Uncle Si last week–how he named his plane after her ( he was a pilot in the European theatre during WWII), how he always […]

I do not eat them any more. They’re made from what is on the floor. I do not like them, Oscar Meyer. Not even from a late campfire. I do not eat them off the grill. I won’t eat one at all until. . . . I’m at the Taylor County High School girls’ softball […]

Caitlan has let us know that she and Kyle arrived safely in Oxford. Thanks be to God. I hope they have a wonderful time during his visit there. Then she will be studying day and night for her final exams (I think they are called collections) before coming home on June 17th. I am so […]

Left Champaign after breakfast with Nancy. Highwayed to Louisville with KK listening to a Katherine Valentine book about a haunted rectory–we were expecting a light-hearted yarn about a rug-hooking group of Catholic women and got a scary devil story that neither of us would have picked. Linked up with Brendan and Maria at Lynn’s Paradise […]

I love you above all measure. Know that even though he has been gone 15 years, your dad loves you today as then, he prays for you daily, he watches over you in every way possible. I hope you prayed for and to him today. I hope you went to Mass and remembered him. If […]

Lent is early this year. I’m going to take a lead from Ian, who started this, I think, when he was in hight school, and not eat meat at all during Lent. I’ll try to do other things as well, since I don’t eat that much meat any way, but it will make it easier […]

I had dinner with my groupies at Elvira’s on Friday night. I was late so Deb ordered my house red and a plate of ravioli for me. Yum! On Saturday I was up early enough to get some laundry done before Brendan arrived. Time to change to the flannel sheets. Jim Brown helped us work […]

This is for BCA, ICA, anc CCA.  You can add to the list here or email me.  Audiobooks count. PLUM LOVE (A Stephanie Plum novel)  Janet Evanovich HOT SIX   Same (Aunt Janet got me started on these–she’s a bounty hunter from NJ)  In Process–A ROOM CALLED REMEMBER  Frederick Buechner (writings on faith–he is astounding)                        ANIMAL, […]

I never had a hard time not eating meat on Ffidays because I liked the food that we did have. I only remember one time that I was tempted to eat meat–Friday night football games and hot dogs. In those days we always had pizza and spaghetti with meat, and Mombo made vegetable soup and […]