Happy new year! Here’s a wee little recap of my 2017 and a brief look forward to 2018. I sure enjoyed doing “light blogging” last week (which meant posting only the daily A La Carte articles) and am now eager to get back to the usual regimen.

Proud of Her on Mother’s Day
I can’t even tell you how brave she has been, how resilient, and how determined. The Lord alone knows all the ways she has had to exercise her faith and submit her will to his. But she has. She has, and it has been a blessing and an honor to behold. We come again to…