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A Little Update

We Moved AND I Have a New Book Launching in Spring 2025!

It has been some many months since I reach out to you. 2023 proved to be a very challenging year for us, starting with a couple of health crises that overwhelmed us. We came to the difficult decision of selling our beautiful home on Mobile Bay and leaving dear friends and a lovely parish community to move closer to our children and grandchildren. I don’t need to say how this has been a wonderful boon in our lives!

We’ve been spending this year settling into our new home in the Washington, DC area, in north Virginia, and we love it. I’ve started doing some gardening as the weather has warmed up, and I am hoping to be enjoying the summer with the grandkids with plenty of pool time.

I’ve also returned to a deeper writing life. You may know that I have been working at CatholicMom.com as an editor for a couple of years, and have been podcasting more for the Momcast and Prayercast. I am encouraged to return to my personal podcast.


ALSO, I am DELIGHTED to share with you first that I am under contract with Ave Maria Press for a new book that launches in Spring 2025. It is a follow-up to the award-winning My Badass Book of Saints. The new book is the logical next step in our lives, where I talk about the excitement and challenges we face as we enter mid-life and beyond and seize the opportunity for a Second Act, a daring exploration of what we can do next with the gifts and experiences God has given us in our lives. I hope you’ll stay tuned for more news as we get closer to launching this fun new book.

In the meantime, Badass is featured on Ave Maria Press’s Summer Reading Sale, so if you’ve never read it, I invite you to join the fun and discover a bold and beautiful saint-companion. Use DISCOUNT CODE: SUMMER2024 for $5 off your order! You might want to pick up Super Girls and Halos and Our Lady of Charity, too!

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the future is now

 

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This week’s photo challenge asks me to look to the future.

I can do that — I mean, right now in my life I’m all about planning. I have a million things to do. I don’t have a million hours in the day to do them. What’s worse, the 24 hours I do have seem to be taken up with minutiae that distracts me from the things I plan to do.

If I am focused on what I’m going to do, maybe I’m not doing what I need to be doing in the now.

 

So right now, I need to fill up those pages.

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for my love of stories

I love stories, whether they are fantastical fictional adventures or true life confessions. Sometimes, the stories are something in between.

I was looking around for a video to share with my literature students this term, and found this gem.

 

Chimamanda Adichie, a Nigerian writer, discusses a deep subject — how knowing only one story about anything limits our ability to understand each other. While the TED Talk shares her personal experiences in the one-story pitfall, its universality makes it a must-see for all students.

The human condition is as varied and unique as the persons who comprise it. I love her perspective. I especially love that it is based on the dignity of the human person. Enjoy.

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