June is the month of weddings (yeah - I was married in May) and so I thought some of you out there might be interested in making a special set of prayer beads for the brides-to-be in your lives.
As I have a friend getting married soon (yeah - not in June) I decided to make [...]
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The Sea Ranch, Monday morning . . . .
This morning, sitting in the window overlooking the ocean, I got out the packet of paper beads I ordered last month from Beads for Life. I am going to hold a Beads for Life party in June and I couldn’t wait till then to see what they [...]
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Earlier this week, I was interviewed by my friend and colleague David Yonke, religion reporter for The Toledo Blade, about the book and prayer beads in general for an article he is very kindly writing pegged to the trunk show of my prayer beads at Bonita Bead Boutique in Maumee, Ohio. David mentioned that his [...]
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Eariler this week, I posted about going to see my friend Carolyn become a Catholic after 40 years of attending the Catholic church.
As a gift to commemorate her baptism, confirmation and first communion - taken all in one ceremony the night before Easter - I promised to make her a Catholic rosary, so today we [...]
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Saturday night I attended the Easter Vigil service at St. Jerome’s Catholic Church in El Cerrito, Calif. to see my friend Carolyn become a Catholic. Carolyn, who is in her sixties (I hope she won’t mind my saying that!) decided sometime in the last year that she wanted to become a member of the church [...]
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How I would love to go and sit in a church or other place of sanctuary and meditation today and work my prayer beads. Good Friday has always been one of my favorite days in the church calendar. Is that weird? It is such a somber day. I think it is among my favorites because [...]
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I hope none of you are so far into your St. Patrick’s Day celebrations that you don’t have the energy to do a little prayer bead session with my favorite saint! You shouldn’t be too far gone - it’s only 2:30 p.m. here in California - but I realize that’s Happy Hour time in NYC, [...]
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For this last week before Holy Week, I had planned to compile some prayers for prayer beads on the theme of hunger and loneliness. That’s kind of what I have been feeling lately, as winter sits - and sits and sits. But then the sun came out and I thought, that would be a bummer! [...]
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This week, I have been thinking a lot about silence. It has been a week split between long days at home alone with my dog, Bella, and the computer and a weekend of raucus fun with girlfriends at a knitting convention that attracted thousands of people. In the first part of the week there was [...]
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On Friday (Feb 1), I received some bad news. My mother, who is 63, had broken a hip and fallen - in that order - while out with my stepfather and his parents. An x-ray at the emergency room appeared to show a tumor on her bone that had worn away the joint, causing the [...]
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