Goodbyes are never easy. We all know this because we all experience goodbyes throughout life. I've been pondering a coming goodbye in my life, one of a treasured place of higher learning that sent me into the world with a youthful eagerness to apply what I learned but also to enlarge that learning constantly for the... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: The New York Times  On June 25, just a week ago, we lost Walter Brueggemann, an American theologian and well-known scholar of the prophets in the Hebrew Scriptures. A few weeks before Brueggemann’s death, the respected minister-turned journalist, Bill Moyers died. Both men were in their early nineties. Both were Southerners. Both wielded a... Continue Reading →

Photo credit: Pixabay.com I first mentioned Kindland to my readers about a year or so ago. Kindland is headquartered in Mayfield Heights, Ohio just outside of Cleveland. The word is determined from a word formula: Kind (ness) + cleve (Land). It stems from the Values in Action Foundation which fosters values education in local schools in most states in... Continue Reading →

Hudson, Ohio is a town of some 22,000 residents and 7,225 households. It sits in the northern part of Summit County and was once owned by the State of Connecticut as part of that State’s ‘Western Reserve,’ land which Connecticut had annexed for expansion. Thus, this swath of land—which includes a section of Cleveland, some 20... Continue Reading →

Photo credit: Alamy Over the years, my dogs and I have had many experiences on our daily walks, especially when we get into the nearby park woods. I know these woods and the park quite well but that is not ok with the nuns with whom I live. They are convinced that the Boston Strangler... Continue Reading →

“Now will I praise those godly men, our ancestors, each in his own time…Stalwart men, solidly established and at peace in their own estates— “All these were glorious in their times, each illustrious in his day. Some have left behind a name…But of others there is no memory “Yet these also were godly men whose virtues... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: Adobe Stock This coming Sunday, June 8, we celebrate the Feast of Pentecost, when the apostles were enlightened by the Holy Spirit to go forth and preach the Good News and to make converts to the same missionary endeavor. It occurs 50 days after Easter a designated time during an annual religious festival... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: Adobe Stock This year, the feast of the Ascension occurs for Christians on May 29th but is celebrated by Catholics on the following Sunday, June 1.  The Ascension has always been a type of mystical feast, like the Transfiguration which occurs before Passion Week. Both events occur in the presence of a few or more... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: YouTube (Last week’s blog had to be written for publication before the election of the Pope. Therefore, Lily got her column in. Today’s post handles history’s momentous papal election.) Well, I had set up my booth in my little basement office and started taking on a number of people making bets on who would... Continue Reading →

Note: Lily used to offer President Biden’s pets advice on occasion. Since the new president does not have pets, she has reached out to the pets of congresspersons. And wow! did she get responses!! She will write this advice column on occasion when we all need a cheerful lift from the news of the day. Enjoy!... Continue Reading →