Another invocation…

Still on the runaway treadmill…will probably be on it until after Final Exams…sigh. So here’s the prayer I offered when asked to do the invocation at the College of Engineering and Science’s  Honors Convocation:
Lloyd Dobyns and Clare Crawford-Mason said in their book, “Thinking About Quality”, “The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from [...]

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A prayer to party by…

Tonight was the Annual Slide Rule Dinner Dance held by the College of Engineering and Science at the University of Detroit Mercy. It’s a grand event where students, faculty, and alumni get together to recognize excellence, share a nice dinner, and the “boogie down.” (Speaking of which, a woman came up to me during the [...]

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Twouble with Twitters

Another perfectly silly blog entry…this video made me laugh out loud, though it certainly doesn’t make a compelling argument for non-Twitterers to start using Twitter. Should I be questioning my sanity?
While you are at it, be sure and check out the brief column in last week’s “Wired Campus” feature of the Chronicle of Higher Education. [...]

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Go to bed, and stay there!

Yes, I’m still kicking…and it’s a crazy time of the year with classes, conference papers, grant proposals, etc… So here’s a brief excerpt from an article I read in the Detroit Free Press today. Dr. Mark Opp is a professor in the anesthesiology dept. at Univ. of Michigan.
So, perhaps as a cop out and excuse [...]

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Real life in “the D”

I just added www.detroitblog.org to my blogroll. The entries are not particularly frequent, but they are extremely well written and offer a glimpse into the lives of real Detroiters who “keep on keeping on” in the face of tough times. Sure, it might be more fun to follow the antics of a lying, flamboyant former [...]

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Birds and other Florida creatures

Enjoy…here’s a slideshow of the photos I took one day while in Florida. Most of them are from the Wakodahatchee Wetlands and the Green Cay Wetlands, though the last 2 are from Sr. C’s back yard. If you want to peruse the photos in a more leisurely fashion, feel free to click on the link [...]

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Free at last! Thanks to the washing mashine!

So, as I squeeze a bit of school work between the wash and dry cycles of my laundry, I thought I’d take a short break to share with you Rome’s bit of wisdom commemorating International Women’s Day…
Vatican: Washing Machine Liberated Women – World news | Newser
The Vatican’s newspaper appears to have come out in support [...]

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Where’s the party?

I don’t know…it’s just my caption for the picture (see below) I snapped from the back yard of one of our sisters who lives in Florida. Sr. C. has been in Florida for many years, since before I entered the Baden CSJs, so we hadn’t really met properly. But since she lives only 2 hours [...]

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Contemporary women religious – interesting perspectives

Here a couple of excerpts from articles in the National Catholic Reporter that appeared soon after the announcement that the Vatican was undertaking an “Apostolic Visitation” of women’s religious orders in the U.S. The first is from Sr. Joan Chittister’s regular column. I found her take on the shift within many U.S. women’s communities to [...]

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