Welcome to what I do believe will be the quickest takes I’ve ever written!This week has been unlike any I have ever experienced. I don’t even remember what work-life balance is supposed to mean, but I’m pretty sure I’m not living it this week. Because I work in communications, theRead More

“Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.”Read More

It’s 5-15-15! As a special treat, today you can read these takes backwards or forwards and they will make just as much sense either way!Read More

“The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.Pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”Read More

Whenever our boys see a minivan that is the same make, model, and color as ours, they yell out, “Look! There’s our cousin!” I am totally on board with the idea that our minivan might have cousins on the road.Somehow, though, even though they have been doing this for aRead More

I know you have seen their photo… It was taken right before the wedding of  U.S. Marine Corps Corporal Caleb Earwood and his bride Maggie last Saturday. And it’s popped up everywhere on social media feeds and on many news programs since their photographer Dwayne Schmidt posted it on his Facebook pageRead More

Our peonies are blooming! In my second spring as an owner of a peony bush, I knew to watch for the ants crawling over the flowers before they bloomed.Who would ever think to put wax that ants love to eat over flower bulbs? Isn’t it amazing to watch the antsRead More

Photos by Patti Murphy DohnIt seems as though every year goes by faster and faster…My first year of retirement from Campus Ministry has gone by in the blink of an eye.Now that the John Carroll Class of 2015, as well as all their senior high school peers across thisRead More