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9 Lessons Tom Brady Has Taught Me

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Back in another career, my third, I ‘met’ Brady. Everything was brand new: The marriage, the career, the faith and football.

 

Wresting Opportunity Out of the Jaws of Crisis

 

The two words feel connected. Crisis and Opportunity. Despite the long-term error inherent in the claim that the Chinese character for crisis signifies opportunity, our own experience can reveal the law of contradiction expressed in the paradoxical relationship.

 

Reflecting on Why We Write

It’s a peculiar club. At least for some of us. Marked by long solitary mindwalks prompted by a person or a thought which leads to a question and then another question. Until we realize the only way to rid ourselves of it is to write.

 

Overcoming Anger: The Final Spiritual Struggle

We feel it everywhere: Anger. Whether a seething whisper or bellowing roar, resentment, anger, even rage, feels like the fuel of this brand new year as the second decade of the twenty-first century heads south.

 

Control- Do We Have Any, Really?

By mid- morning on Friday, I realized I did not want to write, at least not on my new book. I had shoveled out the walk and the area in front of the garage so that we could get the cars out on pavement rather than ice. Then I spent too much time fooling around on Facebook, Twitter and reviewing the updated pages on my website for like the twentieth time. Finally, I realized that I would not get my planned daily minimum of one thousand words written today.

 

The Truce Between God and Us

Since 1974, we Catholics begin the new year celebrating the Queen of Peace. New Year’s Day is the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God. Benedictine Oblates also begin a new read of the Rule of Benedict.

 

Happy New Year

What is it about a new year that excites us all? Sure we love the excuse to party with  more of a celebratory fervor than simply because it is Friday or that we’re with a friend whom we’ve not seen for a while. But the New Year celebrations are different, radically so: how many thousands stand in the cold in Times Square to watch a ball drop? And how many millions, across the world, watch them do it?

 

The Walls of Our Unbelief

It was 1918. The young intellectual was nervous about her upcoming visit to Anne, the widow of Adolf Reinach, killed at the 1917 Battle of Flanders.

 

The Work of Advent- More Challenging in 2016

Wake up!

 

Winners For Social Media’s Most Used Words in 2016 Announced

There is no such contest, of course. But if there were, the winners of my imaginary word contest for this year are ‘racist’ and ‘misogynist’, at least that’s how it looks from my view. A view that is heavily influenced by an article I wrote last week. A piece that so negatively affected some readers that these labels were used to describe me.