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For my Eastern time zone friends, I am thrilled to invite you to my upcoming appearances in New York and New Jersey.  All of these events are free to the public and will include brief presentations, refreshments and a chance to meet other families.  I look forward to meeting you at one of these locations:

• St. James Church – Basking Ridge, NJ – “Nurturing Your Family’s Faith Life with 21st Century Resources” – June 13, 2010 – 4:00 pm – Event Details
• St. Catharine’s Church – Glen Rock, NJ – “Raising Faith Filled Children in Today’s Technological Climate” – June 14, 2010 – 7:30 pm – Event Details
• Meet and Greet/Mom’s Night Out Event – Pauline Book Center, New York, NY – June 15, 2010, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm 212.754.1110 – Event Details

For all of my Southern California friends, I wanted to share the following dates and locations for my upcoming Mother’s Day tour in your neck of the woods. I hope you can join me at one of the following locations:

• Meet and Greet/Mom’s Night Out Event – Pauline Book Center, Culver City, CA – May 6, 2010, 6:30 pm – Event Details
• Meet and Greet/Mom’s Night Out Event – Pauline Book Center, San Diego, CA – May 7, 2010 6:30 pm – Event Details
• Book Signing – GodSpace Religious Books & Music – Thousand Oaks, CA – May 8, 2010 – 12 pm – 2 pm – Event Details
• Mother’s Day Book Signing – The Cathedral Gift Shop – Los Angeles, CA – May 9, 2010 – Event Details

My mom will be with me and we’re excited about getting out to meet friends and readers in Southern California.  Can you help me spread the word about these events?  If you would please share this information with your parish and/or school for bulletins and newsletters, that would be a huge help! Additional appearances and all event details can be found at http://lisahendey.com/media/

For friends and readers in the New York/New Jersey area, I am planning a trip to your area for mid June.  I’d love to come visit your parish or organization!  For additional details, contact me by email at lisa@catholicmom.com.

Update – Here are updated flyers for the Chicago event on April 14 at 6:30 pm as well as a new event at the Hammes Bookstore at the University of Notre Dame on Saturday, April 17 at 1:00 pm:

• Meet and Greet/Mom’s Nigh Out Event – Pauline Book Center, Chicago, IL – April 14, 2010 6:30 pm – Event Details
• Book Talk, Signing and Reception – University of Notre Dame Hammes Bookstore – April 17, 2010 1:00 pm – Event Details
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I hope friends living in Central California will be able to come visit with me this weekend, Sunday, April 11 at the St. Marello Bookstore at St. Joachim’s Catholic Church in Madera, California.  I will be in the bookstore signing books and hoping to meet you following all of the Masses on Sunday.  Hope to see you there!

I recently had the opportunity to speak with reporter Paula Doyle of The Tidings in advance of my two sessions at this year’s Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ Religious Education Congress.  You can read the article in its entirety here.  Thanks to Paula and The Tidings for highlighting my talks!

On Wednesday, March 10 I’ll be a part of a special team presenting a half day Clergy Communications Workshop for the priests of the Diocese of Fresno.  Our very forward-thinking Bishop has embraced Pope Benedict XVI’s  World Communications Day Message for this year and is providing this opportunity to assist the priests of our diocese with implementing technology strategies in their ministry.  The Fresno Bee shared information on this workshop in this recent article.  Please join me in praying for our priests and those who will join me in presenting this event.

I wanted to share with you my recent interview with Genevieve Pollock of Zenit, where we discussed the vocation of motherhood and The Handbook for Catholic Moms. Genevieve posed some incredibly thoughtful questions, and it was a real treat to have my book featured by one of my favorite Catholic resources.  View the entire interview here.

Thank you to everyone at CatholicTV, especially Fr. Robert Reed and Kevin Nelson for the recent opportunity they provided for me to share about on their great program, This is the Day. In case you missed the program, you can view it here.

Since I’m such a huge fan of Catholic podcasts, it was a real treat last week to have The Handbook for Catholic Moms: Nurturing Your Heart, Mind, Body and Soul featured on two of my favorite shows.  Listen in to the iPadre Catholic Podcast to hear my conversation with one of my favorite priests, Fr. Jay Finelli.  Fr. Jay is a contributor to the book, and one of those hold priests who really “gets” the use of new media in his priesthood.  If I had the opportunity to chat with Fr. Jay every week, I’d likely be a much better wife, mom and person.
[podcast]http://media.libsyn.com/media/ipadre/ipadre_178-catholic-mom.mp3[/podcast]

The second podcast to feature the book last week was my very own family of mom bloggers at the Faith & Family Live Cast.  You can almost hear me blushing out loud at the very kind remarks offered by my friends and writing colleagues Danielle Bean and Arwen Mosier.  Honestly, hearing the two of them talk so sweetly about our book made my heart sing.  Since both of these two fine writers are also contributors to the book, it was especially joyful to share this conversation with them!
[podcast]http://a1.video3.blip.tv/0170001876239/Faithandfamily-FaithFamilyLivecastEpisode39821.mp3[/podcast]

Today, I have the good fortune of appearing on two morning radio shows to help spread the word about my new book The Handbook for Catholic Moms: Nurturing Your Heart, Mind, Body and Soul. At 5:50 am Pacific Time, I will join Brian Patrick on his Son Rise Morning Show, followed by an appearance with Greg and Jennifer Willits on their wonderful show, The Catholics Next Door on Sirius XM’s The Catholic Channel at 9:20 am Pacific Time.  I hope you can join me for one or both of these conversations!