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Posted on January 4, 2013March 11, 2018

Visiting the prisoner — or just writing him

Two days ago, on the ninth day of Christmas, I returned to work. I came in an hour early to take advantage of the quiet before anyone else arrived. It turned out also to be before the building's heat was turned on, I discovered to my chilly surprise. Completely ignoring the fact that I'd really …

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Posted on January 2, 2013March 11, 2018

Vacuuming up Baby Jesus

Once, I vacuumed up Baby Jesus. Naturally, I panicked. I’d been cleaning up around the Nativity Scene – sucking up stray bits of straw that had worked their way out of the confines of the modest wooden stable we’d built for the Holy Family. I slipped, just a bit, with the vacuum cleaner hose and, …

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Nearly 20 years ago, I met Mary Cross @cross0824 at Sunday Mass. For these 2 decades, she and her family (hey there @katdefilippo, @michaelmcross, Mark and Justin) have gone out of their way to love our family through hospitality. Mary is a super homemaker, baker, interior designer, chef, kitchen remodeler, mother and grandmother. I am not sure @shawna_cross and @angelahcross could have made it through early motherhood without Mary's generous babysitting help. She is overflowing with welcome and service is her middle name. She hosted my 6 person brood for Thanksgivings and graduations and a double engagement party as oir kids worked their way into adulthood. Most amazingly, in the 7 months since my car accident and brain injury, she has brought my husband and I meals, called to check on me and done a grocery run. (And I know I am not the only person she cares for in this manner!) Today, she and @ katdefilippo made homemade wonders and delivered them to a number of moms in a basket for Mothers Day, including me. (See what I mean about Mary being a good parent...her kindness and service-mindedness rubbed off on her daughter.) Cookies, biscuits, jam, tea, granola. I ate two of the hand painted cookies before I thought to take a photo. Mary has long inspired me, and in reconnecting in a much more intense way since my accident, she has made me a better person. Happy mothers day, friend - and to you, too, Kat - and thank you for the basket!
Yep. Some people don't know where the generations end. Thanks to my millennials for yelling at me to stay safe.
Ummmm? #covid19sighting
Best of us in a time of panic. Passed on to me from near Tucson, AZ. May we all do the same.

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