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All Hallow’s Eve and Halloween

All Hallow’s Eve and Halloween

  I don't know a child who doesn't like to use their imagination, especially when it comes to dressing up in costume and pretending to be someone/thing else! How fun it is to be a superhero, first responder, or beautiful princess for a night. For this reason,...

A Miscarriage Story

A Miscarriage Story

Losing a child - through miscarriage or anywhere else along the journey to heaven, is perhaps the most painful experience a parent will go through. Death of course is unnatural, and unintended in the creation of man. Still, the heart breaks - it shatters, and through...

Increasing Marian Devotion

Increasing Marian Devotion

As the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary fast approaches, I am so thankful for all the many women surrounding me, who reflect the beautiful virtues of Our Lady. For my own mother, friends, and fellow writers - who hold close to the mother of Jesus, despite the...

Drug Dealing to Coffee Farming

Drug Dealing to Coffee Farming

  The story of how Joey Stazzone came to be a licensed coffee grader (roughly 3,000 worldwide), and owner of Cafe Kreyol, which he founded, is an unlikely one. By age 12, Joey was using marijuana, painkillers and developed an addiction to opiates. By the time he...

The Need for Christian Community

The Need for Christian Community

 I am a rock. I am an island. Except that I'm not! The popular Paul Simon lyrics spoke truth to many hearts who had shut out love, and with it the chance for heartbreak. But what about when those walls of our fortress - deep and mighty, are real? How many of us even...

Appaloosa Music Festival Has Deep Roots

Appaloosa Music Festival Has Deep Roots

  Perhaps the last thing you expected to hear from one of the five main stages of Scythian's Shenandoah Valley annual roots music festival, were the Divine Praises. It was the morning of the canonization of beloved Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and weary campers who...

Finding Christ in the Darkness – WGTS 91.9

Finding Christ in the Darkness – WGTS 91.9

Finding Christ in the Darkness As a guest on the WGTS Breakaway show, Kevin Krueger and I explore the NEW BOOK I wrote with and about Charles Piccirilli, and how Christ can find us in the darkness. The truth is that after death, Christ descended into hell! I can only...

The Morality of Charlie Brown

The Morality of Charlie Brown

The surreptitious messages underlying modern day children's flicks are sometimes enough to make adults red in the face. Humor swings from inappropriate to potty worthy. Children are mesmerized by the hypercolored characters with equally loud and dramatic...

Once I Was Blind

Once I Was Blind

ORDER: ONCE I WAS BLIND BUT NOW I SEE How It All Started I have known Charles Piccirilli since just after High School. At that time I was a real mess - a feminist, romanticized anarchist, searching desperately for God. The guy I was dating at the time worked for...

Postpartum Depression

Postpartum Depression

I stood knee deep in the direct center of the pond, the lukewarm water slowly creeping higher up my legs. I was numb to the water and the squishy mud beneath my feet, making its way through the spaces between my toes.  My eyes focused on the great emptiness before me...

The Revelation at Emmaus

The Revelation at Emmaus

  Were not our hearts burning within us? Revelation is a Gift There have been some very explicit moments in my life in which God intervened most powerfully in the midst of the ordinary and mundane. Still, I did not/or could not see it. In sharing these stories of miraculous events and healings I have […]