December is our family’s busiest month, by far, with the usual end-of-school-year events, three different family Christmas celebrations, family birthdays, and holiday catch-ups with friends squeezed into four dizzying weeks. It’s exhausting but good. New Year’s Eve is my husband’s birthday, and some people will drop around, including good friends we haven’t seen for a while….
Author: Marilyn Rodrigues
I'm a journalist and married mother of five. I live in Sydney.
6 tips for recovering your Advent spirit in the last week before Christmas
Advent, that time of joyful hope, is almost finished. That time of waiting with Mary and Joseph for the fullness of time to arrive, alert to Christ’s presence hidden in daily life. At least, that was the plan. But it’s a bit tricky to maintain a solemnly joyful vigil in real life, isn’t it? Nevertheless,…
My week on the black and white photo challenge
Last week a friend tagged me in the black and white photo challenge which has been doing the rounds of social media over the past couple of months. It was a busy week with a couple of extra year-end activities thrown in. It’s nice to have a record of it since I was being intentional about…
Free verse poem in anticipation of the first Sunday in Advent, 2017
No pristine altar cloths here. Only 10 school shirts, mostly white (brown around the second-hand collars won’t come off), which he irons with the care of a sacristan. The Ikea lamp is a little wonky and not the best for reading by but does the job as good as a red one to signal that…
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