Did you know that the country of Indonesia spans four time zones? I had no idea. No clue, really, until I met Susi G. – a friend my daughter made during their just-completed graduate studies at SIU-Edwardsville.
Author Archives: John Schroeder
Today’s find: Commencements
Today’s find: A mother’s love
Today’s find: A mother’s love
Tom and Ray Magliozzi got scolded on the air by their mother yesterday.
Today’s find: Backwater blessings
Don’t know about you, but I’ve always wondered why there isn’t a ‘Letter of St. Paul to the Athenians.’
Today’s find: Splash!
I stepped into an enormous puddle on the way to church early Friday morning.
Today’s find: Dogwoods
Our dogwoods are in full bloom this week. And that means different things, on different trees.
Today’s find: Lock-down.
It was an other-worldly experience, getting through Security at a client’s corporate campus yesterday.
Today’s find: Prophets
Have you ever met a real, live prophet? I did, just a little over a decade ago.
Today’s find: A Great Amen.
A friend once remarked, ‘When you go to Mass every day, you see things you don’t see every day.’
Today’s find: Scattered
A spring storm scattered hundreds of immature seed pods across my driveway today–an untidy intrusion, courtesy of a neighbor’s tree down the street.
Today’s find: Embracing the ‘other pole.’
It was as mad as I can ever remember getting at God.




