Saying Grace

Recipes from Mom "No mean woman can cook well, for it calls for a light head, a generous spirit, and a large heart."  Paul Gauguin This is the forward elegantly written in my mother's hand inside the soft chocolate leather bound book of family recipes. They are memories really, collected by my

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Your Life Is Your Prayer

I have to admit I am more gypsy than monk when it comes to the practice of prayer. I have been known to kneel, light a candle, anoint with holy water, read the psalms, finger the rosary, recite the Lord’s Prayer, walk in the woods in silence, fall asleep mid-phrase,

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