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Michelle Martin
November 26, 2024
On fire with hope
What are your best Advent memories? You’ve got some, right? Maybe it was that time your family lit the candles on the Advent wreath at Mass. Or the time you put up a Jesse tree. No, not a Christmas tree. Not during Advent.
November 13, 2024
There and back again
I think it’s time for me to reread “The Lord of the Rings.” Colder weather and darker days always seem to fit with Tolkien, and the books take me back to a simpler time, when my brother and I would try to one-up each other with Middle Earth lore (read: trivia) in the back seat.
October 30, 2024
Doctor who?
When I asked my mother how one of her friends was doing recently, she said the friend was “doctoring.”
October 17, 2024
Don’t go there
I don’t watch many horror movies. There are enough real things that scare me, thank you very much. So when my husband and kids start talking about the annual late-night screening of “Halloween” in our living room, I take myself to bed with a cup of herbal tea and a cozy mystery.
October 02, 2024
Wait ’til …
I started this baseball season in Arizona, sitting on a grassy hill in bright sunshine when everything was possible.
September 12, 2024
Perchance to dream
Sleep gets a bad rap. People who sleep a lot are seen as lazy, not on the ball, not willing or able to work hard. Even in the Gospels, we get the sleeping bridesmaids not ready for the groom’s arrival, and then the sleeping disciples in the garden of Gethsemane.
August 29, 2024
Remember, remember
What’s your favorite memory aid? Do you have a paper calendar on the kitchen wall, maybe one from your parish with a funeral home ad on the bottom?
August 15, 2024
Back to school
When I was a child, back-to-school was one of my favorite times of the year. So was getting out of school for the summer — I wasn’t that unusual — but something about getting new notebooks and pens, getting to pick out folders with cute or cool pictures on them, to go with new crayons, erasers, paper and glue made me happy. New school supplies just had a different smell than the old, used up grubby ones.
July 31, 2024
Too many leftovers
The feeding of the multitude has always been one of my favorite Gospel readings. It’s a familiar story, the only miracle aside from the Resurrection that is included in all four Gospels, with, of course, some variations.
July 02, 2024
Rainy days
I want to like rainy days. I want to enjoy the patter of drops on the roof, or even better on the leaves outside while sitting on the porch and watching the water fall from the sky.
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