Author: Joshua

There they sat. In the back of an old parking lot at the bottom of the Rockton Street hill, across from the old Crystal Bar, next to the Chuctanunda Creek. They’d been there for a while, and I often remember driving past them. Dad, of course, was keenly interested. His inventive mind was going a…

Personal repentance and recognizing our mortality are the two hallmarks of the Lenten season. As Fr. John Ricardo says, “the whole point of this is that when we come to the end of 40 days, we look a little more like Christ.” We are more free; we are more centered; we are more aware —…

A series of old red painted single-paned windows stretched along the back corner of our house and from that room you could down the back hill to the crick below and the farm above the trees, the side yard with its’ two apple trees, well house, swing set, and the garage surrounded by Dad’s piles…

“A mantra that often helps me when the path is difficult is simply to say, “This is what comes with it.”  It has an extraordinary ability to relieve the tension and drama of things. The “it” of course, is the joy of knowing that you are where you are supposed to be. That sense that…