Lent Project Day 13: Of Technology and Treats
How hard can buying chocolates possibly be? Alas, harder than you’d think, yesterday at least.
Author: Mary MacDonald
When you're raising a child, a big part of your identity is "Mom". Now that my child is 18, I'm figuring out who I am post-childrearing. With grace and curse words, I'm navigating middle age.
Lent Project Day 12: March Forth!
You know how some holidays just require you to *do* something? Not necessarily in a bad way – On Christmas, you have your traditions – maybe Midnight mass, then opening presents in your jammies the next morning and steamy cups of hot chocolate while you watch movies all day? On New Year’s Day, maybe you […]
Lent Project Day 11: What if I fall?
Maybe it’s OK to settle, but maybe you want more than that. Certainly, you have to know what’s in your way. And sometimes, that thing is you.
Lent Project Day 10: Conflicting Goals
A colleague today posted on an internal Slack channel that her daughter is in school for the first time this year, and she’s looking at the summer wondering what happens now. She is too old for childcare, but she’s also too young to stay home and not be a huge draw on my colleague’s time, […]
Lent Project Day 9: Fairtrade Fortnight
We’re just about half way through Fairtrade Fortnight (who else loves calling to two week periods Fortnights? So much more refined!) Anyway, Fairtrade Fortnight is a campaign from the Fairtrade Foundation in the UK that brings awareness to food scarcity and the campaign to give farmers (especially exploited farmers) a fair wage, decent working conditions, […]
Lent Project Day 8: It takes a village to shovel a sidewalk
You don’t go to the Comments Section to see the best of humanity. Sometimes the entertainment value is high, especially if you can refrain from getting goaded into a virtual monkeyslap fight.
Lent Project Day 7: Pink Shirt Day
No one wants to recognize a bully in themselves, but I think that if we really look, many of us can.
Lent Project Day 6: Spiritual Mentors
I listen to a podcast wherein one of the hosts speaks regularly about her spiritual mentor – St. Therese of Lisieux. The podcast doesn’t speak much about spiritual matters, so when she says something about St. Theresa, I’m fascinated. I don’t keep my penchant for the Pantheon of Catholic Saints quiet for longer than about […]
Lent Project Day 5: Vision
Henry David Thoreau had it figured out: “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see”, which translates roughly to “Mondays are hard, yo.”
Lent Project Day 4: The Challenge of Prayer
I’m not going to be all pious about this. I’m terrible at praying for my enemies
