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Bizarre Dreams

By: Kathleen May 3, 2019May 3, 2019

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Photo by Engin Akyurt on Pexels.com I had a bizarre series of dreams last night: 1: I couldn’t get apps to close on a smart device. (Anyone who knows me knows this is particularly bizarre because I don’t use a smart phone.) 2: I couldn’t find the right pair of contacts. 3: We drove up…

The Reason That Dream Was So Scary

By: Kathleen July 5, 2017July 5, 2017

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I’ll blame it on watching “Logan” late at night. I had this vivid dream in which we were at my parents’ church and in the middle of the Gospel, I realized Julianna’s bus was due to drop her off at home in five minutes. Only my parents’ church is 35 minutes away, and by the…

On, In, Around

By: Kathleen August 6, 2012August 7, 2012

babies, breastfeeding, dreams, family4 Comments

I’m sitting in the back of the van with the kids, watching Christian talk to his new wife up front. Out of nowhere, Nicholas glibly recites an entire line of some REM song with a lot of words, and I think, Uh-oh. I head forward and lean between the front seats to tell Christian we…

Let Everything That Has Breath (or: Beating a Dead Horse)

By: Kathleen April 4, 2011April 4, 2011

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Just before my alarm went off, 5:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning, I had the most amazing dream. We were attending Mass at the Newman Center, and singing the new Mass parts. They were chants, as a matter of fact, but the most gorgeous, melodic chants I’d ever heard, and expanded into gorgeously rich harmony…

Banana Storms

By: Kathleen November 19, 2009November 19, 2009

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Precious moments. We’ve all had them—those moments that make your heart catch every time you remember them. No matter how often you revisit them, they never get stale or lose their power. Tender or funny, poignant or inspiring, they fortify us against toddler tantrums and pubescent (and pre-school) power struggles. Leave a comment sharing your…

Samuel

By: Kathleen January 18, 2009January 19, 2009

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His name was Samuel. A child who heard his master calling him in the middle of the night. He was a good, obedient boy, and he responded with alacrity. But his master kept telling him, “Go back to bed. I didn’t call you.” The third time it happened, Eli finally clued into the truth:…

The Dream

By: Kathleen December 18, 2008

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I woke up very early this morning from a vivid dream. In it, I was giving my children baths in a beautiful, clear stream in the woods. We were floating peacefully up and down the current. Then I saw another child sitting in the stream, with its head turned so that I couldn’t see it…