Dear Friends Greetings from the high desert where we are bathed in beautiful spring sunshine and blue skies! We are rapidly approaching the end of another school year, and I notice that our graduating class is ripe with anticipation as […]

Greetings once more from the Zuni Pueblo! With Easter falling early this year, the older students are already thinking about the end of the school year while the younger students are simply enjoying the moment. Our 8th graders are planning […]

Greetings once more from all of us at St. Anthony’s! My last two communications were hot on the heels of each other, so I thought I would delay writing a wee bit and let us all settle into 2026. When […]

They looked to the heavens and found peace on earth… “Let’s go to Bethlehem!”It’s wonderful how a seemingly simple phrase in the Gospel can catch hold of one’s thoughts. The words of the shepherds after the angels left them caught […]

My apologies for being tardy once again in writing. However, much has been happening over these last few weeks as our ever-lively little School moved into yet a higher gear of activity on just about every level! The onslaught of […]

Dear Friends Autumn greetings from all at St. Anthony’s. Yes indeed, Fall is almost upon us once more. Perhaps it’s just my Celtic nature but I still get lost in wonder as the trees change color and begin to radiate […]

Dear Friends Greeting once more from the high desert and all at St. Anthony’s. I must apologize once again for my delay in writing. School reopening has had all my attention. However, our friends are never far from my mind […]

Dear Friends Greetings from our hot and dry high desert. Summer monsoon season seems late in arriving, I hope and pray it is still on the way. Our land is parched making it vulnerable to fires. The 4th of July […]

Dear Friends I find it hard to believe that there are only a few days left in the school year. Our graduation ceremony will take place this week. Next week our students will depart for the long summer vacation. I […]

Greetings once more from the High Desert and all of our school community at St. Anthony’s. Happily the spring sun shines on us although winter winds still grace us from the mountains of Colorado. Hail, rain or snow… Our young […]

Greetings from all of us at St. Anthony’s, with apologies for my tardiness in writing. Perhaps it is simply the effects of age, but 2025 seems to be passing more rapidly than ever. Or perhaps it just seems that way […]

“Let’s go to Bethlehem” It’s wonderful how a seemingly simple phrase in the Gospel can stop and make one think. The words of the shepherds after the angels left them, caught my heart this year. They heard the angelic message […]

As we approach Thanksgiving, winter is wrapping us in her snowy mantel turning our pueblo in a wonderland of green trees, gleaming white leaves and of course doubled laughter from our young people. As my old bones cry out for […]

Greetings once more from the High Desert, where chilly mornings give way to sweltering afternoons as the mother nature changes to her Autumn attire.Looking back over the last few weeks I find the school, like Mother Nature, getting ready for […]

Greeting once more from all at St. Anthony’s. I apologize for not writing to you during July. The staff asked me about the July letter and all I could say is “what will I write about, we only have holes […]

Greetings once more from the High Desert, living up to its name as temperatures rise under the cloudless blue sky. Zuni St Anthony School – The 2024 Graduates I delayed a little in sending out this month’s letter so as […]

There is an old saying: “you win some and you lose some.” The adage is reverberating through my thoughts as I consider the last couple of weeks at St. Anthony’s. But let’s begin with the winnings that must never be […]

Greetings once more from the high desert of New Mexico! Although “desert” seems somewhat inappropriate for a landscape covered in snow. In fact, it looks as if we might have a white Easter! Hail, rain or snow, St. Anthony’s continues […]

Greetings from the high desert where winter is slowly changing into spring despite some very cold evenings and nights. Although we have been through a rough winter, we are grateful for the snow and rain. We all know how necessary […]

By the time this letter reaches you, 2024 will be well underway, but I think it is never too late to wish friends a Happy New Year. I pray that the year will be blessed for all of us. Since […]