Last week I wrote to the Paratus community and discussed how many of us feel out of tune after a challenging year. We looked closely at the music we want...

Have you felt the desire to transform into Martha Stewart with your gift-giving this year? A friend was telling me how she is inexplicably scrolling Pinterest late into the night,...

With stress in the air, some schools and universities recently cancelled classes, urging a day of self-care, or as Jesuit schools refer to it, cura personalis. This Latin phrase means...

Do you ever notice the lights flicker in your house? Some people might want to point to supernatural phenomena, but flickering is often caused by a power surge. When your...

Do you ever take evening moments to just soak in the sounds of nature? Depending on your  climate, it can be challenging to spend summer days outside. Scorching sun and...

Sometimes I like to explore words. One word can unfurl such depths of meaning. This winter, in our Paratus community, we looked at interesting words like hygge and fredagsmys. At...

Did you know that the Louvre originated as a fortress? The biggest art museum in the world, the guardian of the Mona Lisa and 400,000 other treasures, wasn’t designed to...

During many recent conversations, the idea of what to remember has come up quite a lot. People are thinking about what they have been learning during this time of quarantine,...

I first wrote about anchors back in February of 2019. My word of the year was grounded and I wanted to give extra time to considering what helped me feel...

As I sit down to write this blog, I notice the 20+ tabs I have open on my computer. I don’t typically have this many tabs open and the scene...