I love how kids are unafraid to ask the questions all the adults are thinking, but are too afraid to ask.  What DOES FMA stand for? Famous Movie Actress…..hmm…nope. Funny Mom (in) Action… gosh, sometimes we are like that… Former Miss  America… this is my personal favorite, and even though many of our Sisters are [...]

This is a definition I have heard from childhood.  I’m a “cradle Catholic,” baptized early in life…and I’ve seen Catholic masses enculturated in so many forms that it’s dizzying, but always, the same Lord is made present, and the same basic truths are celebrated.  It’s beautiful, and it’s touching. Today, however, I was struck by [...]

It’s pretty certain that my community, or those who know me well will laugh when they see the title of this…  Why will they laugh?  Because I often say, “I’m practically Mexican.  My sister-in-law is Mexican, My neice and nephews are Mexican, I love Mexican food and make a mean seven layer dip…I’m practically Mexican!” In [...]

For these months while I’m here in Italy, I’m living in our GENERAL House in Rome, Italy.  There are usually about one hundred Sisters who live in this house, but during these days, there are about 300.  The additional two hundred are Sisters from all over the world. I’m deeply impressed by the character of the [...]

I learned Italian.  It never seemed I would be able to learn a foreign language.  When I was a kid, and spoke the little bit of Spanish, I remember wondering what good the phrase, “the pen is red” would do for me in real life and how this knowledge would help me to communicate in [...]