Familiar images flooded media sources yesterday as the news of Muammar Gaddafi’s death spread. My initial response: “I don’t have time for this. Between work deadlines pressing on me and my body’s seeming insistence on rest as I recover from the flu, there simply isn’t time to consider these events and then deal with . . . → Read More: Mixed blessings – a time for sober optimism?
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I’m enjoying some incredibly full and fruitful days with more than 70 dynamic and wonderful women leaders in higher education. Besides retreat, which I will have to get back to soon, this is another experience that is sure to yield many blog posts if I can just take the time to write them. Today, one . . . → Read More: My negotiation style…”soul-full” leadership?
This goes out to all of my younger friends and colleagues who frequent my reflections here. I recently sent the following message to Nicole Sotelo, who is the Call to Action staff liaison to CTA’s 20/30 group (excerpt): I’m a CTA member, and I’m also a Sister of St. Joseph. (Baden, PA . . . → Read More: What are you seeking? As my brother Dave pointed out in his comment on my last post, even President Obama as a candidate in 2008 used a “gun metaphor” in response to Republican attacks, speaking of bringing a gun to a knife fight. In my opinion, here is a great opportunity for Pres. Obama to lead by example, not . . . → Read More: A new moment? First of all, sorry for the long hiatus…the good news is that our engineering accreditation visit went well, and we now have a new UDM president. Things are slowly getting back to a normal pace for me… But as for today’s topic, I felt moved to share something I heard on the radio last night . . . → Read More: I think the Dalai Lama is a CSJ… First of all, sorry for the long absence…with the gearing up for the school year and some time sitting w/Mom and Dad after his successful surgery, then catching up from those days, there has simply been no time to post anything but a few Facebook updates. So let’s keep this on the light side…but with . . . → Read More: “Hard but good” and other “nun lingo” I thought I’d provide a bit of background on the SEAL (stability-enhanced assistive lift) project I wrote about here. The inspiration for this project (which the client and I informally call the “Assina Sling”) was my friend B., who I stayed with for a few days last summer after a fall in which she banged her . . . → Read More: …more on SEAL
Like many Roman Catholic institutes, parishes, and other organizations, we Baden Sisters of St. Joseph have embraced an option for the poor, devoting ourselves to standing with those who have no voice, trying to make a difference both by direct service and by challenging societal and political structures that contribute to the . . . → Read More: An option for youth… Now that I’ve gotten your attention, please read on, lest you think I’m about to embark on a bragging session… As one of many of you who care deeply about the Church and the world, I have been following the news and op-ed columns of the mainstream and Catholic media as they pertain to current . . . → Read More: What if the Sisters have been right all along? From Lily Coyle, in a letter to the editor of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, in response to news about Pat Robertson’s unfortunate response to the human tradegy in Haiti. (If you haven’t heard, he basically said the reason they are suffering from this disaster is that the Haitian people long ago made a deal . . . → Read More: Satan's response to Pat Robertson |
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