I do not use this journal to divulge the deepest parts of my personalities, nor do I (often) go on diatribes about what should or shouldn't be going on in the world.  I may go off every now & again on something I think inane, but more often than not the purpose of this journal is to share pieces of OUR family with those that we're no longer ( Read more... )

Wow...what a day!  For those of you that have been keeping up with things in the "World of the American w/Italian heritage in the Arabic Archdiocese at the Russian Seminary"...I have to tell you that we had such an amazing weekend.  First of all, we shot down to Allentown, PA first thing Saturday morning in order to be with "our girls" in Teen SOYO ( Read more... )

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Many of you know that my history contains a sincere and thorough dislike of any kind of racist and/or stereotyping of a people.  Growing up in Livingston, N.J. exposed me to unique experiences that not too many folks my age had the opportunity to see.  I can think of at least three different sets of Grandparents that lived or visited my ( Read more... )

Evangelistic tactics such as this just baffle me...I'm actually wondering why the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church has never considered such a route!?  And in case you're reading my ponderings for the very first time...THAT WAS SARCASM!!  Lord Help Us!!

Well, I must say that when you combine the work load of graduate studies with Youth worker tasks and add to that just a pinch (wicked sarcasm there btw!) of fatherhood, and of course...when you find time...being a husband...it scarcely allows one to catch up on one's journal entries now does it??!!  It has been an AMAZING blessing being here.  No ( Read more... )

we could get these guys together!!

http://merecomments.typepad.com/merecomments/2005/09/wild_crazy_prie.html

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/csm/20050922/wl_csm/omonasteryx_1

How bizarre this world sometimes seems...I guess that's why we're never really supposed to feel "at home"?

I wonder whether or not there will come a time when I feel like I am home...or rather "deserve" to be here?   It is with thoughts like this that I hope to remain in the "learning" mode.  I have managed to keep that outlook up 'til now so I imagine that It should not be too difficult to continue it!  The Teen group at St. Mary's is something that I ( Read more... )

The books are up on their shelves...MOST of the boxes are unpacked...the children already have found a gaggle of friends...Di has attended her first Seminary Wives' gathering...I've attended my first class...and the Marlboros have been discarded (as promised)...and all of it seems so dang easy considering all the unbelievable crazy-ness that it ( Read more... )

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