About The Blog and Author
Minutes to Moments is an inspirational blog for today’s busy moms.
Moms live their lives in minutes and moments. Our minutes are expressed in the ticking of the clock and the tasks we must do. Our moments are the glimpses of the eternal that we find hidden in the moments. Hopefuly, this blog will help moms everywhere make the connection to the moments behind the minutes.
Minutes to Moments was created by Maria Rodgers O’Rourke, a working mom who has been there, done that. View Maria’s advice for busy moms here.
Maria Rodgers O’Rourke is a popular and accomplished writer, facilitator and speaker who has given numerous workshops and retreats. Author of Prepare Your Heart and Be a Great Mom (2009) and Prepare Your Heart for a Great Christmas (2008), she pens a weekly column, The Big Picture, for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat online. Maria’s story “Love and Potato Chips” is featured in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Devotionals for Women (2009).
Maria has served in church ministry for over 20 years on the national, regional and local levels in communications, adult spirituality, family life and retreat direction and she holds a Master’s Degree in Pastoral Studies. Her accomplishments include experience as a contributing columnist to the St. Louis Post Dispatch and Suburban Journals, local radio show host and as color commentator on the Odyssey Network for the 1999 Papal Visit of Pope John Paul II to St. Louis.
Maria has over 20 years of experience in communications and is president of MRO Communications, specializing in marketing communications through newsletters, web copy, brochures, press releases, training materials, proposals, articles, white papers, event materials.
Maria and her husband Steve have two daughters.