I don’t really know why they do it, but I love seeing dogs stick their heads out car windows as their owners drive down the street. Yesterday I watched a large dog put his head far out the passenger-side back window. The faster the car went, the more the dog seemed to enjoy it.            Perhaps it is that dogs love the rush of fresh air flowing over ...

 I was ordained on May 25, 1974. Today is the anniversary of the eve of that ordination. I recall it rather well.            That evening the ten of us to be ordained arrived at the Cathedral for a rehearsal. It was thorough but not in a painstaking way. We were to start the Mass by walking up the aisle in procession and then joining our families in the ...

    When I was a kid, our family kept a May altar. For those who recall the 1950’s, that was not unusual. A home May altar consisted of a statue of Mary placed somewhere for the family to see and perhaps stop and pray. It was a home shrine, if you will, and was kept up throughout the month of May, the month of Mary.            I somehow inherited the ...

 Perhaps you have seen the signs around the area, usually at Metro-Parks, that simply read, “Birders Welcome.” Of course, these signs show an awareness of the many visitors to the area who are drawn by the spring migration of warblers and other birds.            I first visited Magee Marsh, then part of Crane Creek, more than twenty years ago in order to ...

  Tomorrow is Star Wars Day. In case you haven’t heard this before, it takes place each year on May 4. Put another way, it is “May the fourth…be with you!” Get it now?            When the first Star Wars movie came out, many picked up on the phrase ‘May the Force be with you’ as almost a liturgical formulation. I think many Catholics made an easy ...

by Fr. Herb Weber I took a walk on a recent evening. The sun, low in the western sky, was still very strong and cast quite a shadow. As I looked east, I could see that the dark image of myself extended twelve to fifteen feet onto the grass. I felt like a mighty tall man!            Shadows can’t exist on their own. They need both ...