Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Father Bill suggested we offer a prayer for someone during each day of Lent. As this Lenten challenge required no abstinence from chocolate, I readily agreed. I found an empty jar and a couple packs of Post-It Notes and went to work. It isn’t hard to come up with 40 people in need of prayers, [...]
Tomorrow, we're going to celebrate Fat Tuesday with all the Crazy-Catholic-Creole-Polish-ness we can muster, because we're three of those four things and that's 75%, a solid C. We'll take it. Life is seasonally hard and perennially fragile, so when those goods times roll we like to seize them. Laissez les bon temps rouler? We say [...]
I’m spot treating my mud-splashed pants while simultaneously doing deep squats in my laundry room, and I’m doing both to ward off the effects of an emergency Paczki run. Frankly, I’m a little cranky. Let me explain. I’m the granddaughter of a proudly Polish man. I know my way around a pieroghi. Halubki? I can [...]
It’s been a bit of a rough Lent. My Dad gave up talking on the phone with his college roommate… on weekdays… during work… but abandoned that before the ashes faded from our foreheads. After 39 days without meat, I’m pretty sure I’d hurl if I even looked at another cafeteria fish sandwich. No wonder [...]
This year I gave up meat for Lent, and it’s been very hard… for my mother. As I do a significant amount of cooking in our house, my mom and dad have become fairly vegetarian themselves. It’s been a tough two weeks, but it’s just their cross to bear. Last night I thought I’d try [...]