Good Byes – 4/1/2022 My Aunt Harriet hated “good byes”, so she never said them. I was very young when Harriet and her family moved to the Twin Cities. They made a good home there and raised a good family.
Windows Wide Open There are at least two landmark “breathe deeply” moments each spring. The first is that very first day when you step outside and instead of thrusting your hands deeper into your coat pockets and checking to see
Distance – 3/25/2022 The scariness of distance is at times relative to the smallness of the person and the bigness of their dreams. When we first moved into our house, our two youngest children were just three and four years
This and That Starting a few weeks ago, we added an hour of Eucharistic Adoration following the 8:00 am Mass at Annunciation on Fridays. All are welcome to join us for Mass and then stay to spend some quiet time
The Early Bird – 3/18/2022 The early bird, it is said, gets the worm. I know some birds who seem to disagree. In my last Embers post I wrote about the early return of redwing blackbirds. Although they surprised me