From the Blog: Kathryn Anne Casey

A quick and easy introduction to the Eisenhower urgency-importance matrix, helping time management enthusiasts to prioritize their tasks for reduced stress a...

A review of the film Wonder, better late than never (and a little longer than normal) I saw the trailer for Wonder through social media. I was in tears. Others saw the movie. They told me it had a great message about bullying. I waited for an opportunity to seeRead More

There is a change in the sky. It is no longer the blinding bright California sun we have seen for these five months of summer. The days grow shorter, the evenings longer, the pumpkin spice stronger. There are certain life events and seasons that carry with them aRead More

In high school, the youth minister invited us in turns to share our “testimony” with the middle school youth group. This was a personal story. The stories ranged in minutes, sometimes as long as ten minutes if the speaker was a lover of the stage. Most commonly they contained someRead More

Photos of the week…or… Due to some technical issues, my photos of the week are tucked away, safely on a device where they will not be disturbed, until my husband returns from his musician’s retreat. I offer you this instead, a day late. How did I become a writer? BecauseRead More

Life is moving swiftly along. A few people have asked me how one gets a book published, so this seems a good format to share with you how it happened to me. Two and a half years ago, I asked myself the question “where do I go from here?” WeRead More

Life is moving swiftly along. A few people have asked me how one gets a book published, so this seems a good format to share with you how it happened to me. Two and a half years ago, I asked myself the question “where do I go from here?” WeRead More

Life is moving swiftly along. A few people have asked me how one gets a book published, so this seems a good format to share with you how it happened to me. Two and a half years ago, I asked myself the question “where do I go from here?” WeRead More

Life is moving swiftly along. A few people have asked me how one gets a book published, so this seems a good format to share with you how it happened to me. Two and a half years ago, I asked myself the question “where do I go from here?” WeRead More

John Donne wrote, “No man is an island entire of itself; every man / is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” This means we are all part of a community of persons, nested in society. We do not stand alone, like a remote islandRead More

When I see the words “I AM” capitalized, I think of God. I think of the seven I AM statements from Christ declaring his divinity. I think of Moses asking God His name and God responding, I AM that I AM. God is. Christians believe God is existence. As Creator,Read More

You are more than an “-ism” and so are They It feels a bit like we live in a society that is either overly nice (politically correct) daring never to touch on the things that matter most, never exploring with others the hard questions about existence, or weRead More

Previously published in the Hughson Chronicle-Denair Dispatch I looked out the window to my mess of a backyard. Birdseed drove foreign plants out from the lawn of assorted weeds. The wild, drought-tolerant and all-too-happy to be watered plants had grown, taking over the slow and steady evergreens I hopedRead More

Part 1 We came. We saw. We conquered. We traveled. Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous. — Junipero Serra Seven or so hours fromRead More

Most of us are making plans for 2019. But sometimes our plans get in the way of what God wants for us.

A brief introduction to the person and personality of one of the greatest ladies of the Catholic Church. During her beatification, John Paul II described Edith Stein as “A personality who united within her rich life a dramatic synthesis of our century. It was a synthesis of aRead More