by cazmac9910 | Mar 5, 2014 | Oozing, Uncategorized
I love the Lenten season in the church. It is a time for reflection and reverence and devotion, but the misconception about Lent is that you must suffer and give something up for 40 days or else you are not “doing it right”. I believe the season is about...
by cazmac9910 | Mar 3, 2014 | Oozing, Uncategorized
A friend of mine asked me if our family had had at least two weeks of “normal” over the past several months. I stopped and thought about and realized that the longest span of time we have been able to count as “normal” (without being in the...
by cazmac9910 | Feb 21, 2014 | Oozing, Uncategorized
Last night, as I was walking out of the UNM Children’s Hospital, the wind had picked up quite a bit (part of New Mexico living). The canopy over the entrance was whipping around pretty violently as the wind came at me full force. People were busy coming in to...
by cazmac9910 | Feb 15, 2014 | Oozing, Uncategorized
I’ve never been a big “Valentine’s Day” person. When my husband and I were dating we often had rehearsals, concerts, or conventions on the 14th of February. Maybe an occasional dinner but never anything extremely special was made of that day....
by cazmac9910 | Feb 4, 2014 | Oozing, Uncategorized
Tonight I am winding down on the fifth night of a hospital stay with my 8 year old, “Christian”. The snow is coming down outside, blanketing the streets and rooftops of the buildings around us. It’s as if the snow is covering up the messiness of...
by cazmac9910 | Jan 27, 2014 | Oozing, Uncategorized
When I think about the roads I have been down I am pretty amazed at how my journey has landed me where I am…in the midst of a second career, preparing one child to move on to college and doing second grade homework with the other, while maintaining a home, being...
