Zombie Alert!

I avoid zombies at all costs.
There are a number of reasons for this but the main reason is that I have no desire to become an all-consuming walking dead person.  This means that I want to be a person… Read More

Be Not Afraid

There is that moment when we have to make a decision to either go for it, or sit back.
That moment when we allow ourselves to rest comfortably in what we know or strike out into the unknown.
John Paul… Read More

Note to Self

Do you have a note to yourself?
Every time I start to lose perspective, I use Twitter and send this little note out to myself.
Note to self: pray more, love wife and family more, love people and use things,… Read More

The ScamWOW

I confess I was at Bed Bath and Beyond the other day and I saw the box screaming at me to “buy, buy, buy the ShamWOW!” I mean, how could I resist when that geeky little guy on the front… Read More

How to be Awesomely Holy – Part Two

As we continue our discussion from last week, we need to face the fact that the majority of people we encounter every day are trying to get by or get ahead and they really don’t care about you as long… Read More

How to be Awesomely Holy – Part One

I was a youth minister and I think there is an unwritten rule that any time a youth minister is promoting something to teens or talking something up to the parish, he or she has to use the term “awesome”… Read More

Wheat? Seriously?

Last week I went in for my physical that I’m supposed to have once a year but haven’t in 4 years. After going through all the tests, the doctor asked if I was allergic to anything.
“Nope. Never have been,”… Read More

Holidays as an Excuse

Last week we celebrated St. Patrick’s Day and I let loose a little.  I ate food I don’t normally eat, indulged in a little more corned-beef, cabbage, sugar coated bread, desserts, snacks… you name it.
I think my indulgence was… Read More

Getting Beyond Feelings

One of the great privileges of my job as a teacher is the ability to watch students grow over the course of four years and then to see them teach you. Sometimes I realize that they have been teaching me… Read More

Super Bowl Prep Gone Wrong

It started with the best of intentions: have a few people over to watch the game, have some food, engage in some meaningless banter over 3-D commercials as we wear funny glasses.  Standard fare.  It would be the type of… Read More

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