I have a big announcement to make! I have a new website! From now on all new posts will be over there! Don't forget to sign up for the RSS feed emails on the new site! I  have an exciting blog series to kick it off. Last May-June my family took a three week camping trip Out West. We traveled for 23 days, camped 11 nights, visited 10 National Parks, and saw 11 of the Franciscan California Missions. I kept a handwritten daily journal of our trip. Since Lyme disease thwarted my plan to write about our family camping trip last summer, I will be posting my journal entries from the trip on the a ..read more

Over a year ago my eldest daughter mentioned to me that she was interested in having a new prayer book for devotional reading. This lead to my idea of collaborating with Blessed is She to create a beautiful prayer book for children rich in the Catholic tradition of becoming holy through growth in virtue. Further, I wanted to have a book for my children that taught them how to pray by learning to place themselves in God's presence, make an an examination of their daily lives, and then received inspiration from the Holy Spirit.  After a lot of writing and editing and waiting, this book has fin ..read more