For the second time since the pandemic began, my mother's nieces and nephews put together a zoom get-together, this time to celebrate Kelvin's retirement. Not sure why my dad's side of the family is so different; I can barely name more than two or three of his surviving nieces and nephews. We lost track of them after the last of his Baltimore ( Read more... )

I went to Mass yesterday for the first time in almost three weeks. I came prepared to usher, but, a quick check of the schedule tacked against the wooden screen in the back told me I wasn't needed; one of the ladies handing out the Order of Worship gave me a warm smile of reassurance when she realized what I was looking at ( Read more... )