Spirituality
What Would You Ask God?
My 11-year-old son asks the best questions. He can get a conversation going in any situation. I overheard a lively discussion at the playground when he asked a group...
Spirituality
Hope for 2021 and the Love of God
What is your hope for 2021?
Maybe it’s that life will go back to normal. Maybe your hope is to return to an “in-person” life. Maybe your hope is for...
Reflections
Permission to Notice
When I was in Kindergarten, I took the school bus home. The driver dropped me off three blocks away from my house. Since my mother was home with my...
Reflections
Everything Is Precious
On errands, during a clear Seattle afternoon, I look out my car window to see an East African mother carrying groceries home with four children, all under ten. The...
Ignatian Prayer
Receive My Memory
Memories are important to me. They are the building blocks of the stories I tell myself, my children, and new acquaintances.
I attended elementary school 20 miles outside Los Angeles....
Reflections
Prayers Before Zoom School
My children, like so many in COVID times, are in Zoom school. Each morning we take our laptops to separate parts of the house to work, but before that...