Barb’s Blog

  In order to pass on this quote to my children, I figured I would have to explain that not in the too distant past a “heel” was a euphemism for dishonorable person. The quote was from a news story on MSNBC, “Broken Vows” “They thought their mother died of an illness when they were young. But when a local news report uncovers a parish priest’s old files, their lives are turned upside-down.” I went on to watch the whole story. Apparently this priest kept promising a woman he would leave the church and carried on with her. He never left the church, had an affair with her for years off and on, and the story winds down to her death, which he watched her take an overdose of pills and only called for … Read entire article »