Reflections By The Bay

WAITING AT THE GATE 43 The stranger sat there at Gate 43. I sat there waiting in that same airport alcove. Now and then the stranger...

SILENT MARRIAGE Lonely, and the only sounds, (and they were loud) were the clinking and cutting of meat on their porcelain plates, plus the ...

MERCY VERSUS SACRIFICE [This is a weekday homily - 15 Friday in Ordinary Time. Readings: Exodus 11:10-12:14; Matthew 12:1-8. The painti...

ESCAPE TO THE KITCHEN In the middle of the dinner with a plate holding 3 half eaten roasted potato spears – soft pork – done just right – ju...

COMPETITION? Am I dark red Jell-O, no longer in hot water, just sitting here on this refrigerator shelf in the dark, waiting in the cold qui...

PLUS AND MINUS The new baby, celebration, but then the cries in the night, last week my single aunt’s funeral, the one we took in for the la...

FRONT PORCHES What ever happened to front porches? Why don’t they build them any more? Don’t builders realize people need to wave, watch, sc...