Happy New Year! Right now, resolve to read your fellow Guild members’ posts once a month when you see the Round-Up! Here’s your first batch of the year. This is how you keep in touch with the real people this Guild is made of. The gratitude you’ll feel for the […]
Member Round-Up
Wow! The months are going round faster than a herd of cattle in a stampede! Time again for the monthly Yee-Haw to our blogging Guild members: Michael Seagriff calls lay Catholics to get busy evangelizing. Nancy Ward has a new perspective (literally!) on the kingdom of God….very interesting! Ellen Gable Hrkach – if […]
All-New Member Blog Round-Up!!
Yippee-kai-yay! Facebook is reinventing the Round-up! Suddenly, we have communication!! I’m very thankful to those who built the FB infrastructure to get us all a bit more in each other’s faces. The results are in – here’s the best Round-up ever: Michael Seagriff – lucidity in Catholic dialogue…. Barb Szyszkiewicz – God […]
The Right Place for Bloggers
If you’ve just been to the LIVE Guild Conference, I’ll bet you’ve been told you need to blog. Just last year, after coming home inspired, I felt a renewed sense of the importance of blogging. Here are some observations and tips that have helped me make a much more serious […]
Member Blog Round-Up
Dear Guild Members, I know you just got back from the Conference, and it slipped your mind to send in your blog link for August! Therefore, I’m taking editorial privilege and seeking you out! There have been a few mixed messages about whether we’d continue this Round-up, and I’m here […]
Round-up With A Twist
Ok, Guild Bloggers, here’s the last Member Blog Round Up! (See why, see The Twist, and see the Next Thing, below.) Michael Seagriff shares a truly beautiful idea for ministry kids can take up with ease. (This story has it’s own twist…please do check it out!) Monica McConkey teaches how to make […]
May Blog Round-Up
Welcome to the Guild’s May Blog Round-Up. Please visit these posts to get to know your fellow Guild members. Melanie Rigney asks a thought-provoking question about the way of holiness…who’s way is the best….which way is yours? Margaret Realy writes beautifully of a Franciscan encounter with a ladybug….was this ever […]
10 Ways to Refresh Your Blog
1) Make sure there’s a great ‘About You’ page. I’m surprised how many blogs have no info about the author. When I read a great post, I want to know more about you! 2) Use the free Link Within plug-in to make lovely cross-links with the photos and titles of […]
April Blog Round-Up
Can you believe it’s already May?? I’m not quite there yet! Go back with me to these favorite April posts: Jean Heimann writes of St. Catherine of Sienna (and I found lots of helpful info about other saints here). Michael Seagriff writes of protecting the unborn. Karl Erickson – no kidding […]
Community! Find it in Unexpected Places!
I took up a swimming challenge at our local YMCA in January, and I’ve had plenty of time while plowing through the H2O to contemplate. One of the things that came to me recently – and which I did not anticipate – was what swimming (or any solitary sport), writing, […]