Segue
Hello Friends. You may have noticed Lent 2020 is different than other years. I'm not going to rehash what we already know, but it would...
Marie MOConnell
- Mar 4, 2020
- 3 min
In which I fill my kitchen with bags of trash, and visit the dentist.
Some have asked what my Lenten Practices practice is in specific this year, and since I have small kids who learn with visuals, we opted...
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Marie MOConnell
- Feb 26, 2020
- 2 min
Watch your Ash out there.
2/26/2020 Ash Wednesday "Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;...
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Cat Wilson
- Feb 24, 2020
- 1 min
Fat Tuesday
Hello all! Tomorrow is Mardi Gras, also known as Fat Tuesday, which is followed by Ash Wednesday, signaling the beginning of Lent and our...
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Cat Wilson
- Apr 19, 2019
- 2 min
On Good Friday
“If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since...
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Cat Wilson
- Apr 16, 2019
- 3 min
Let's talk Easter Baskets
Hello my Peeps, I personally have a big soft spot for Easter Baskets. Every year my Mom would craftily put together an assortment of...
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Marie MOConnell
- Mar 27, 2019
- 4 min
One Thing at a Time
by Guest Writer Ainsely Herrick The month before Ash Wednesday, my timeline was suddenly filled with posts encouraging people to give up...
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Cat Wilson
- Mar 16, 2019
- 2 min
Dear Sir or Madam
I confess that personally I hate rocking the boat. I'm one of those people that wrings their hands about sending food at restaurants back...
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Marie MOConnell
- Mar 15, 2019
- 4 min
Thankful for a new face; there is great good in some plastics
Whenever I get down about how much we are overusing and abusing the planet, and all the literal crap we have made out of plastic for no...
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Cat Wilson
- Mar 12, 2019
- 2 min
Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, don’t Rely on recycling and don’t despair
I didn’t sleep last night. I kept smelling rank garbage. I would get up walk around check my cats’ litter boxes, nothing. I would lay...
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Marie MOConnell
- Mar 9, 2019
- 5 min
"Ok, this will sound odd, but I'm giving up plastic for Lent..."
Please believe me when I say that decent conversations can start this way. I've started SO many conversations this way. Sometimes they...
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Marie MOConnell
- Mar 5, 2019
- 3 min
the 5th year of Lenten Plastics.
The year is now 2019, and it's been 5 years of Lenten Plastics--even if this is the first you've heard of it. Behold, my first post on...
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Cat Wilson
- Mar 4, 2019
- 1 min
On your mark, Get Ready...
“Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.” -Mattie Stepanek Good Morning Everyone. This website has...
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Marie MOConnell
- Feb 24, 2019
- 4 min
We are doing WHAT?(But I Want to Eat That!)
So we had our first conversation as a family yesterday: what are we doing for Lent this year? My kids are used to me (attempting) to...
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Cat Wilson
- Jan 31, 2019
- 2 min
Preparing to go plastic free for 40 days
Welcome! You are here. You've answered the call. You want to do something for the environment and future generations of humankind. But...
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