Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
We’ve been popping into the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception on our afternoon strolls. It sits on the Seton Hall campus and provides the perfect respite for my companion and me. At just under three-months old, Ronni likes that it’s cool and dark inside. I like the opportunity to say a few prayers in a [...]
You can taste resilience in a chocolate bar. Altruism too. And, most delicious of all, peace. I know this because I bit into a Peace by Chocolate candy bar yesterday and here's what I learned: we humans are even better than the richest, deepest, sweetest chocolate. That's saying something. Peace by Chocolate is a company [...]
In the middle of a challenging week, we stole some love and peace. We got them from a place flowing with both -- the river that runs along our property up north. It only took an hour or two for the river to work its magic, and we returned to our busy lives with fresh [...]
We are clinging to Christmas for as long as it will let us…or at least until next weekend, which is the firm deadline I gave the youngest member of our household when he insisted we leave all our decorations – including the tree – up “forever.” I get a little twitchy post-New Year’s Eve although, [...]
I treated myself to a nice walk in the rain Monday afternoon…unplanned, of course, but still so very pleasant that I wasn’t even mad at Pete Petoniak, the WLUK weatherman who had assured me and all his viewers that it would not rain until “after dinner”. “What time do you eat dinner, Pete?” I thought [...]