This month, the Catholic Writers’ Guild is touring Kate Frantz’s book,“Lectio Divina: 30 Days of Peace Journal.” It is a 2022 CWG Seal of Approval recipient! This journal makes it easier than ever to engage in the ancient practice of Lectio Divina, a beautiful way to draw deeper into the […]
CWG Book Blast! An Anthology, “Treasures: Visible and Invisible”
This month, the Catholic Writers’ Guild is touring the Catholic Teen Books authors’ anthology, “Treasures: Visible and Invisible.” It is a CWG Seal of Approval recipient! With a shamrock as a touchstone, Treasures takes you on a journey through time and across continents. Summary of Stories: A teen boy sets […]
CWG Book Blast! “Close to the Soul,” by Mary Jo Thayer
This month, the Catholic Writers’ Guild is touring MaryJo Thayer’s book, “Close to the Soul.” It is a CWG Seal of Approval recipient! Carolyn Fandel, a Catholic teen from a large family, is raped by someone she trusts and will not accept defeat, even when confronted by her rapist a […]
CWG Book Blast! “A Painted Rosary,” by Kate Frantz
This month, the Catholic Writers’ Guild is touring Kate Frantz’s book, “A Painted Rosary.” It is a CWG Seal of Approval recipient! Meditate with sacred art and transform the way you pray the Rosary! Summary: A Painted Rosary cleverly pairs a modern and sleek design with the richness of traditional […]
My Part to Play
Autumn is just about here, and I am grateful beyond words for so many things. Even as local and world upheavals distress my soul, so I breathe a prayer and turn my gaze to tasks at hand. What is my part to play in this maelstrom we call life with […]
Wounded Souls and Quiet Heroes
Driving into town this morning, passing by the refurbished diner, the town hall—its door wide open to the Coffee and Gab Saturday regulars, a friend heading into the post office, and finally turning into the Glendale Cemetery to check on a recent inquiry about a gravesite, I considered a book my friend […]
Shimmering Green
Summer leaves alive with shimmering green, Or scarlet with autumn’s glory sheen, Evoking mysteries yet unseen. From inside my human-made abode A window peers into nature’s road. Smooth floors, paneled walls, wood fans cool, Heaters and blankets hold back winter’s fierce rule, Protection and comfort—from a human tool. Yet from […]
Imaginative Wonder
Elves and Wood Folk live here. In a late-summer morning, birds chirping, crickets humming, green leaves languidly swaying, bushes blooming, hens wandering sedately across the yard—queens of their private domain—and my world is blessed. I do not trouble my soul with questions on such a morning. I breathe deep and […]
Chorus
A poem a day might well keep despair away. I’ve been reading 150 Most Famous Poems published by Poetry House with works by Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and many more. What I find so extraordinary is that while reading, I enter a sort of dreamland, […]
Where to Feed?
A hummingbird flitters by, The glittering feeder gone dry. Guilty, I note, Unwholesomely, upon my feathered friends, I dote. To watch and claim my own wee-beast I succor them from best to least. A flighty friend, too, am I, To wander hungry, expectations sigh. Where to feed, To fill my […]