Tag: Effie Caldarola

Remember that old saying, born of frustration: "If it's not one thing, it's another!" A friend's kids turned that into a way to tease her:...

The weather was nasty as I hunkered on a Saturday morning over my computer with a cup of cocoa. Rain, wind and icy shards...

Best fishing story of January: A small group of fishermen and an Irish fishing association stopped the Russian navy from conducting war games in...

The book, "We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families," is at once both stunning and horrifying. Searching for...

My husband and I are in the process of moving to the East Coast to be near our daughters and grandchildren. I say "process" because...

Waiting isn't easy, and yet Advent asks of us just that: to wait on the Lord. Sometimes in this busy world, we need some help...

As I head down the hill for my evening walk, a giant full moon looms ahead. A harvest moon, this being a Midwestern October....

Psalm 30 tells us a great deal about morning: "At dusk weeping comes for the night; but at dawn there is rejoicing." Everybody loves a...

When Clem first arrived in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1993, some might have mistaken him for a senior citizen. A Holy Cross priest, Father LeRoy Clementich...

When we first moved to Omaha, Nebraska, 10 years ago, my husband was in a store's parking lot trying to squeeze a purchase for...