Mediatrix of all Graces – Perpetual Adoration

July 25, 2015

The Key to the Side Door

Last week, I wrote about an experience I had during the summer of 1974. At that time, I was 17 years old. I had a part-time job at the Ramada Inn in downtown Peoria, and one Saturday night after work, I drove to the Shrine Mosque in downtown Peoria to see if I could catch the second half of a show that featured a professional barbershop quartet. The quartet had won the previous year’s international competition of barbershop quartets.

September 6, 2014

An Unlikely Gatekeeper

If you’re over the age of 40, you remember a time when most homes had a telephone connected to a wall in the kitchen and a second telephone that sat on a nightstand in the master bedroom. Both phones were connected to the same telephone line (what is now referred to as a “landline”).