6/8/2024 Email
As I have written about many times, my job keeps me plugged in to what’s going on in our Catholic schools – and I love it! While most students are out for summer, some of our schools were still celebrating graduations this week – both from 8th grade and from High School. This weekend Cristo...
5/31/2024 Email
By any measure, it has been a busy week. For my family, we finished 7th grade for the final time. It was my third time (me, my daughter, and my son,) and I never, ever want to do that again. Between trying to learn DNA replication in science, to suƯering through Algebra that I know...
5/31/2024 Email
By any measure, it has been a busy week. For my family, we finished 7th grade for the final time. It was my third time (me, my daughter, and my son,) and I never, ever want to do that again. Between trying to learn DNA replication in science, to suering through Algebra that I know...
5/25/2024 Email
Summer’s unoƯicial start is this weekend, the time that we also pause to honor those who have given their lives for our country. The Memorial Day weekend is a bookend to the season, and each year I find myself full of hope and aspirations for what the next three months might hold in store. How...
5/17/2024 Email
It is very hard to surprise me. For example, when I was in elementary school, I discovered where my mom hid Christmas presents, and I had the audacity to take them out and play with them before she wrapped them – without her ever knowing. Fast forward to present times, and I can usually guess...
5/11/2024 Email
Nell Irby only ever wanted to be one thing – a mother. She achieved that goal, and fortunately, she was my mother. She was many other things, of course…wife, teacher, soprano in the church choir, bridge player, community volunteer, but the thing she was most confident in was that she was a good mother. (I...
5/3/2024 Email
Earlier this week, Msgr. Thomas Shreve passed away after a period of illness and declining health. With permission, I have borrowed what St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Richmond posted to its Facebook page the day he passed. Msgr. Thomas Shreve died this morning. He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop John Joyce Russell on...
4/27/2024 Email
In 2008, Prevent Child Abuse America introduced the blue pinwheel as a national symbol for child abuse prevention. The pinwheel is meant to represent frivolity, joy, and fun – and it serves as a physical reminder of the childhood we wish for all our children. Pinwheel gardens bloom each April as we commemorate Child Abuse...
4/20/2024 Email
Last August, I wrote an email with the subject line “Roots and Wings,” and in it I included a quote that was meaningful to me about raising children. At that time, I was sending my daughter off for her first year of college. A few weeks after sending that email, a thoughtful reader sent me...
4/13/2024 Email
My mommy asked me to write her email this week for a couple of reasons. First, she thought you might like to see me in my eclipse glasses. I didn’t like wearing them, but I posed for her just because she’s my mom, and she gave me a treat. My mommy asked me to write...
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