Tag: retreat

Mission Monday: An Opportunity For A “Re-do”

One of my favorite places to visit in summer is Pismo Beach. It is a little less glamorous than its popular northern neighbor Carmel By The Sea, and a little less crowded. Though it seems the crowded part is changing….

My Roman Holiday: San Giovanni Rotondo

Saint Anthony, Saint Anthony, please come around, something is lost that must be found. What is lost? Me in this post. I’ve labored over it for weeks. I finally had my husband proof it for me, and well, it sucked….

Mission Monday: Mission Bells

As I visited this quiet little mission, Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, just a few miles from California’s Highway 101 I heard this song in my head. It is title “The Mission” by The Newsboys.  I could hear the mission…

The Mary Month of May

The other day a friend stopped me in the parking lot and told me her 9-year-old son asked, “Mom, is there really such a thing as sea glass?” And my friend replied “Why yes there is, because Marylea just posted…

Mission Monday: Francis

Yes, he is handsome too. Even the ceiling, windows and doors are handsome. And kind of masculine. He’s pretty old though, older than any other building in all of San Francisco. Even John Paul came to pray with him here….