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September 21, 1996.  That’s how far back I have to go to tell this story.  And it seems appropriate that I tell it this week, as the...

Wanting to start blogging again, I reminded myself of a promise not to do so until I wrote about a particular story. I’ve been wanting to...

This may not come as a surprise, from someone who graduated UT with an accounting degree:  When given the opportunity, I keep score at...

When our kids were younger, we had a nighttime routine for bedtime.  After baths, after brushing teeth, after the bedtime story and that...

There’s a meme making the rounds again in social media, starring a toddler who wants to go home after church, but his mom is still...

Wait, that sounds a bit too much like the loaded question, “Honey, does this outfit make me look too big?”  Hint to honey:  respond ‘no’...

Having spent one week sick in bed, and another week in Santa Fe at the hospital with my husband, Steve, I wanted to have some special...

July 2015…a tough month for the Sweeneys, ending with Steve as a passenger on a careflight ride from Raton, NM to Santa Fe.  He had been...

If you have access to the internet, or if you are active on social media, you could hardly miss last week’s reporting from San Diego, the...

The Dallas Arts district is comprised of several venues, each with a dedicated purpose:   The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, home of...

A few months ago, a friend in St. Louis asked me to contribute books to a new children’s library in the St. Louis area. The Sweeney’s...

At church this morning (Arapaho United Methodist), we welcomed a new member into Christ’s church.  The little boy, a little more than a...

A friend of mine from Central America sent this video clip to me.  During this week of US Thanksgiving, I find it especially joyful …...

We live on a creek, in Texas.  Some people just assume that the moniker, “Sweeney’s on the Creek,” derives from that location (and it...

My Aunt Frances died of cancer a few days before my college graduation.  Anyone who’s experienced terminal illness – family or friends –...

“If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.”  – Woody Allen A friend of mine...

I loved this joke when I was a child.  “What’s Black and White and Red All Over?”  The answer, of course, varied:  a sunburned zebra, an...

On the east side of IH-35, about 10 miles north of Waco, sits a small community known as West, Texas.  Before this week, not many outside...

Last week, we watched as President Barack Obama took the oath of office for his second term. With traditional pomp and circumstance, the...

I found this op-ed from Maureen Dowd and Father Kevin O’Neil in today’s NY Times to sum up much of my thoughts on finding God in tragedy....