by MO VEAR | Dec 2, 2016 | Alcoholism, Blog, Family, Friends, Kids, Life Lessons, Motherhood, Recovery, Teaching, The more serious..., You Are Not Alone
I know of a man that died recently. He was three months shy of turning one-hundred and one. He was an alcoholic. Born in 1915 after the advent of the first world war, he lived through the Depression, the second world war, and the terrorists’ attacks on September...
by MO VEAR | May 4, 2020 | Faith, Episodes, Life Lessons, Love, Podcast, Prayer, You Are Not Alone
How do you isolate fear to find joy? My guest today is Alicia Bean. One of our country’s frontline nurses in Chicago, Alicia is putting her life at risk in an effort to save lives during the coronavirus pandemic. She is generously blessed with humility,...
by MO VEAR | Mar 30, 2020 | Episodes, Faith, Family, Forgiveness, Friends, Hope, Life Lessons, Love, Perseverance, Podcast, Prayer, You Are Not Alone
How do you move forward in love, marriage, and difficult times? My initial intention for today’s episode was to talk to my guest, Judi Langley, about her twenty-five year marriage to her husband, Gotham. I quickly realized, however, that Judi is one of those...
by MO VEAR | Mar 29, 2020 | Episodes, Faith, Family, Forgiveness, Friends, Hope, I AM, Kindness, Life Lessons, Love, Podcast, The more serious..., Truth, You Are Not Alone
A lot has transpired between my last podcast and the one airing tomorrow–specifically, COVID-19. It’s making us feel uncertain and unsafe. These feelings aren’t new, of course, but our experience of them now is unprecedented. This is hard–all...
by MO VEAR | Jan 13, 2017 | Blog, Education, Faith, Family, Forgiveness, Friends, High School, Hope, Kids, Kindness, LaLumiere, Life Lessons, Love, McDonald's, Notre Dame, Richard Webster, Teaching, Writing, You Are Not Alone
One time, When I was in high school and going through the college admission’s process, my English teacher, Ed Breslin, told me that life isn’t always about what you know; often, he said, it’s about who you know. I didn’t even know what he...
by MO VEAR | Jan 6, 2017 | Blog, Faith, Family, Forgiveness, Friends, Hope, Kids, Life Lessons, Love, Recovery, You Are Not Alone
Have you ever made a new year’s resolution that you truly intended to keep, only to chide yourself in the first week of January for failing to keep it? I did it for years and felt like a big, fat loser. But I went on making resolutions every year, even though my...
