Richard Lederer is a prolific and popular writer, speaker, and educator. For twenty-seven years he was a teacher at St. Paul’s Episcopal School in Concord, New Hampshire. I had the pleasure of meeting him back in the late 80’s when he visited St. Andrew’s School in Boca Raton where I was on the staff. He’s […]
Charlie was a regular visitor at the racetrack. One afternoon he noticed an unusual sight. Right before the first race, a Catholic priest visited one of the horses in the paddock area and gave it a blessing. Charlie watched the horse race very carefully, and sure enough the blessed horse came in 1st! Charlie followed […]
I began my ministry as an acolyte when I was ten years old, in my local parish church in suburban Northern Kentucky, but when I was in my teens, I was also a regularly scheduled server at the Convent of the Transfiguration in Glendale Ohio, just north of Cincinnati. The nuns “imported” boys from local […]
