Imagine with me: Nancy and Donald (careful now, not their real names) were high school sweethearts who married in St. Pat’s Cathedral in NYC. In love and on top of the world, their future was bright and sparkled with five beautiful children and a lovely home in a good, old-fashioned neighborhood. Nancy is a caregiver[...]
This download is for those who have purchased the Theology of the Body Virtual Conference PREMIUM PASS. Without watching my video presentation there, it may not make sense. But with the video, it will help you, or someone you love, to “Put RELIGION into your RELATIONSHIPS”: TOBVC – Rose Sweet Download This can be a[...]
What does any wife really want? Whether she can voice it fully, or even admit it, her desire is: To be loved by her husband like Jesus loves his Bride Wives know fake love when they see it When my husband is in a good mood, he’ll often tell me, “Honey, I just want YOU[...]
Family sing-alongs are fun. They encourage unity, can sometimes bring out the hambones in the unlikeliest family members, and create memories to last a lifetime. So print out this ready-made song list, gather the family, turn off the TV, shut down the electronics, and SING! Warning: For those sensitive souls, the rubber cigar verses are[...]
Adapted from A Catholic Woman’s Guide to Happiness Life is like a journey, taken on a train, With a pair of travelers at each windowpane. I may sit beside you all the journey through, Or I may sit elsewhere, never knowing you. But if fate should make me sit by your side, Let’s be pleasant[...]
BOOM! Your marriage is in trouble and DIVORCE IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER. What do you do? As with a medical emergency, get help now! Waiting only invites death. The qualified and trained ER staff will assess your immediate needs and give you a list of things to do. Yes, you may need extensive (and expensive)[...]
DIVORCE makes the usually stressful and over-scheduled holidays even more difficult: If you’re separated or divorced, these ten tips can help you unload the dread, anxiety, or loneliness for a time of inner peace, hope, and even a little joy. If you’re related to, or a friend of, someone who’s divorced, these will also help[...]
Since my blog is aptly named “Sweet Talk” it can’t hurt to post a much requested, holiday dessert recipe: my Grandmother Riley’s Famous Fruitcake. Since Grandma has passed, I can confess the tweaks I made in the version posted here: Finally! A fruitcake that is rich, moist, boozy, and elegant. Click To Tweet I changed out[...]
I fell in love for the first time when I was seventeen. It was 1968 and Franco Zeffirelli’s epic “Romeo and Juliet” had come out that year. Hoping for romance, my girlfriend, Gail, and I had put on some light pink lipstick, rolled up our skirts at the waist to shorten them, and headed over[...]
Not if you mean an exhaustive set of detailed schematics that he decided before you were born and that you must discover or be doomed. Let me explain. Back in the 1970’s I began a thirty-year career as a commercial real estate appraiser. I’ll never forget the first time I unrolled construction plans for a[...]
