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 My grandmother took my family to the Dominican Republic the day after Christmas for a family vacation.We stayed in Punta Cana in the La Altagracia Province of the Dominican Republic. La Altagracia Province is the eastern-most area of the Dominican Republic.What struck me the most about the trip was the

  Everyone in Baltimore watched the Ravens game last Saturday. Everyone, that is, except us. See, we did turn on the game. But after a while—and by “a while,” I mean about 20 minutes—our sons got antsy. “This is boring,” Leo said. “Can we watch DC Super Friends instead?” “This is the Ravens! You love the

One of the most awesome and overwhelming actions of God is the miracle of you. The creation of you was not by happenstance, nor an aimless action. You are the result of God speaking in this world. You came into the world, at just the right time for just the right purpose.

The other day I fished a plastic sour cream container out of the garbage can. It and its expired contents had been inadvertently tossed during a post-holiday fridge-cleaning frenzy, but I, being the tree-hugger I am, scrubbed it up and added it to the recycling bin.

By the time you read this column, the Christmas season will be mostly over. It officially ends, not with the Feast of the Epiphany, but with the Baptism of the Lord by John the Baptist. We see the babe in Bethlehem now grown to adulthood in Judea.