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Rooting for the Orioles, a rainbow, a sunset, a trip to the Green Dragon, school supply shopping, and more (7 Quick Takes)

We’ve had a mixture of rain and sun this week, and one night I slipped out of the house to run to the store for strawberries.
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A memory from the feast of St. Ignatius

Then I thought of something. It was the feast of St. Ignatius. When you can do nothing else, you can pray.
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Is it appropriate etiquette to eat pepperoni pizza in a funeral home?

Death is such a part of our lives, and it puts us in a funny place. Since that's true, why not amuse ourselves?
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One parish helps another

Your support for the 2018 Archbishop's Annual Appeal is making great things possible. Take, for instance, the parishes of St. Joan of Arc and Church of the Annunciation.
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When you discover you aren’t the only people still playing Pokemon Go

Two years into playing Pokemon Go, my sons and I may not be playing with the same enthusiasm we did when it started. But I'm not so sure. There’s still plenty of excitement there.
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Recovering from vacation, for Pete’s sake, a new iCade, household chores, and the worst sounds in the world (7 Quick Takes)

Nothing is more fun than taking a vacation week at the beach. But I can’t believe how tired I still am from a vacation that ended a week ago.
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Cycle of life, interrupted, for bad and then good

It’s been three weeks since a man with a grudge and a rifle shot down the doorway to the Annapolis Capital and murdered five of its employees, among them two colleagues. Every one of those 21 days has been required to process the mysteries of life and what can only be described as survivor’s guilt.
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Cookies for breakfast and sloths for everyone (or what we do on a beach vacation)

It’s 7:30 a.m. on a morning of our beach vacation. I haven’t even poured my first cup of coffee. And I’m pretty sure I could have used another three hours of sleep.
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Toes in the sand and peach cake in my hand or what we did on our family beach vacation (7 Quick Takes)

You might think that a blogger who is on vacation all week would have time to write a blog almost every day. In fact, I thought that myself.
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The people God wants us to meet

At times, we question why God places us with certain people: how did he pick that cabbage-head boyfriend, or that annoying neighbor who constantly causes drama along the street?
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