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In the Meantime,

Feb 23, 2022 – from MI Last week I wrote as Wendy got her chemotherapy.  That’s always trying, but in winter and a pandemic it is even more so.  This week I write as Russia invades Ukraine.  The repercussions will further complicate our lives with financial turbulence and uncertainty.  Sometimes it seems that something happens…
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In the Meantime,

Feb 15, 2022 – from MI Today I am sitting with Wendy as she gets her fourth infusion.  This is the last of this sequence, which took place every two weeks. In two weeks she begins another drug that will be infused weekly for 12 weeks. Then she will receive three weeks of radiation.  It…
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Job Opening: Faith Formation Assistant

VUU is looking for a new Faith Formation Assistant 20 hours per week, $15/hr Sundays 8:30am-12:30pm + flexible week day hours Tasks: Assist Marci with lesson review & editing, classroom set up, Time For All Ages research and production, and assist with special events.  Click here for a the full job description

In the Meantime,

February 9, 2022 – From an airport. Once again I am writing from an airport.  Today I am going back to MI to support Wendy.  Things are going as well as could be expected, but that is still far from usual.  She has gotten her cancer tonsure these past two weeks.  For centuries those entering monastic…
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In the Meantime,

February 2, 2022 – From AZ February 2 is one of those days people think is special.  Why?  GroundHog Day for one, a Germanic custom that wandered into America.  Among Catholics it is the feast of Candlemas, which was layered on top of the Roman Lupercalia.   Many holidays are like that, stacking up on old…
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