I did promise to post pictures of my week long silent retreat at the Cistercian (Trappists) Monastery, New Clairvaux, in Northern California. I discovered this remote monastery last year when the New York Times featured an article about their Sacred…
I took these pictures on Good Friday, 2013, just weeks before I left on my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. That was the first Easter my husband and I spent away from our home parish. We have just made reservations for…
In the midst of California’s drought my husband and I make way to one of California’s great natural monuments, Yosemite National Park. It’s a traditionally quiet time of the year. Kids are back in school after the holiday, the falls are…
(previously published in The Catholic Voice) Five years ago, my family and I went on a pilgrimage through the south of France to the Grotto of Lourdes where Mary spoke the words — “I am the Immaculate Conception” — words…
Mission San Francisco Solano sits on the corner of Sonoma’s town square. Mission art and architecture remains the focal point of this City – a wine country jewel. This mission is one of two California Missions owned and operated by the California State…
The best of the web this week: This eight minute video will change the way you look at yourself and possibly you daughter. We should all see ourselves in the image and likeness of God. Which of coarse means we are…