"Temptations are an opportunity for Grace." This sentence jumped out at me during Fr. Pat's sermon today. Over the past several years I have grown to love and appreciate the Lenten Season. It is such a reflective time for me; lately I feel very close to God... as a "friend!" That was always a difficult concept for me to understand, but today, this ( Read more... )

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January 6, 2007

Right now, folks in Fairbanks, Alaska are experiencing the darkest days of winter- the coldest too (it's 32 degrees BELOW zero).  All week long I've felt compelled to clean, organize and purge.  I'm not sure if this is due to the fact that we are stuck inside so much, or because we just started a new year, or maybe I am "nesting" ( ( Read more... )

Lately it feels like I'm not getting anything accomplished, like I just sit around all day thinking about what needs to get done and never doing anything worth mentioning. All I can muster up the energy for are the bare minimums required of parenting and maintaining the household (but I guess that alone is more than some people can manage). So, ( Read more... )

This is a crazy world we live in. I joined MySpace just to keep in touch with my kids, so I only check it once in awhile. Who'd of thought that random men would find me and want to start an online relationship?!? MySpace is too techno for me anyway; I didn't even know that people were sending me messages until just today! A man (my age--from ( Read more... )

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I can't believe that I FORGOT to file for the PFD's before the deadline March 31. Fuck. FUCK! How could something so important be so unimportant that I would FORGET!!!! That's what I get for procrastinating. What an expensive, fucking unbelievable, lesson! I've been so sick since last Wednesday, slept all day Thursday and barely drug myself ( Read more... )

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