Archive | August, 2003

Blessed

I was allowing myself to wallow a bit – my oldest son, now 24 and in grad school broke his nose in water polo practice Thursday night. No health insurance – and I was a bit worried. And, I had a couple of bad stress days this week. But – I am so blessed! I [...]

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Still trying the Atkins Way

OK – I’m not really evangelizing about Atkins, but, so far I’ve dropped about 25 lbs…. I’m down to the smallest clothes in the closet. Granted, I used to have smaller ones before the house burned and I got to start all over on my wardrobe. There have been a few hitches – times when [...]

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Braves 10, DiamondBacks 6

My second major league baseball game! Both have been trips to see the Braves in Atlanta – a beautiful ballpark. We were running late due to the service at Famous Dave’s Barbeque being a bit slower than we would have liked – and the parking lot on I-75/85 getting down to the stadium. Aahh! the [...]

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Hope for the Church?

Today John Freund sent me a link that was a bright spot: LeavenDenver.org. Reading thru the site – especially the “Your Pulpit” section gave me a strong sense that the Holy Spirit is indeed renewing the face of the earth. I was very moved by the woman’s homily based on the story in the gospel [...]

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Recent Travels

Our last journey involved travel from rain-soaked Alabama up to the beach in southern Maine by way of NYC and Rhode Island…. T’was a grand time -with Daniel (18) and Marie (22) travelling with us in the car, and David (24) meeting us in Maine. Two weeks of family – cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, everywhere. [...]

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