Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys died of cancer on May 4, and I have listened to the album “Paul’s Boutique” every single day since then.
Every. Single. Day.
A friend gave me this CD sometime around 1997, but I’d never really “gotten” it. When Yauch, whose stage name was...
I listened to a Franklin Covey webinar about being more productive last week during my lunch break. (I’m a bit of a productivity nut.) I came away very inspired by five choices to keep in mind every day:
Act on the important; don’t react to the urgent. This is especially true when dealing with...
I had the pleasure recently of sitting down for an interview with Chris Padgett, husband, father, convert, singer-songwriter-musician and youth minister. He and his wife, Linda, brought six of their nine children with them when they visited the offices of Franciscan Media. In the hour we spent together, I...
“Mr. Sparks is on the line.”
That was what I heard in my headset while I was waiting for my interview with author Nicholas Sparks. He had agreed to an interview with St. Anthony Messenger in conjunction with the release of the film The Lucky One based on his novel by the same name.
When I had...
Last month, my family and I made a trip out west—part for business and part to visit my husband’s family. We flew into Phoenix, drove to Tucson for the diocesan conference there, drove back to Phoenix (Chandler, really) for our nephew’s Baptism at St. Andrew’s, drove to LA for the Los Angeles...
My wife was out grabbing a sandwich on a beautiful March evening, sitting outside just enjoying the time when she spotted a typical American family – two parents, a boy and a girl – but – and this struck her as atypical – not speaking to one another. She thought a bit odd, especially as we recalled...
