Thy Grace is Sufficient

When I was a boy, my parents had a record album of a Christmas concert / dinner party that they played every year. The original event was s...

Christmas is in just four short days. What happened to the time?! Today, for the first time, I heard this Christmas Carol. Its perfe...

This one will be a bit long, so be patient with me. The Lag in Writing I have not been writing here for over a month. I am not really sure ...

For more years than I can count, Nancy always asks me to write the family Christmas Letter. And every year comes the same feeling; how...

Do you ever wonder why you were put on this earth? Do you ever find yourself pondering deeply profound questions of life while driving in th...

This is my Dad, circa 1942. This is his grand daughter, circa Halloween 2009. She is wearing his flight suit in which he piloted B-17s in W...

Recently, while visiting Older Daughter at DePaul University, I had the opportunity to attend Mass at St. Vincent Depaul Parish, on the cam...

Younger sister and I have just returned from Chicago for DePaul Family Weekend 2009 , otherwise known as Visiting The Gigantic Educational E...

"It wasn't his life goal to be known as a hero, but it has been his life goal to have a close, loving relationship with his daughte...

We received a last minute invite Saturday night to the Hollywood Bowl. Boy, are we glad we said yes, and never have I been more surprised a...

" Spend your life inside a box looking through stained glass Dream about a better day and hope it finds you fast" Lately, I have b...

I agree with this!

This is a song I heard tonight that I love. With Older Daughter off to college, I am musing poetic, and this song says it quite well for me....

It seems as if in the first moment, I was holding a wet, wiggling baby girl in my arms. How in the world was I going to handle the challen...

This is one of the better time lapse series I have seen of the Station Fire above La Canada. This is exactly what we have been seeing over ...

Its like something in the back of your mind, all the time. The past several days have had an ominous mood around our area. There is a new ...

Recession have you down? Feeling the blues? I think I might be feeling some of those things. After a wonderful late summer break with the ...

Thanks to Uncle Dave for this wonderful video:

Everyone has heard of the rule of Six Degrees of Separation. As it turns out, I am only two degrees separated from Julia Child! I find this...

Amid the great quiet, there is a soft, rhythmic sound here. Always there, off in the distance, not too far away. It’s the gentle lapp...