My post is a day late, and will be short. I recently discovered the poetry of Tomas Transtromer, winner of…
Sometimes in the often perplexing publishing world you run into some extremely nice people. Like the director of an academic…
I’m reading an incredible book right now—Inside the Dementia Epidemic: A Daughter’s Memoir by Martha Stennius. I downloaded it to…
This morning I woke up thinking about faith, as I often do on Friday mornings. After saying my morning prayers…
“Poetry is never finished; it is only abandoned.”—W. H. Auden A similar quote, “Art is never finished, only abandoned,” is…
This is a week for grieving. A dear woman in our church passed away last week, after a seven-year battle…
When I was visiting my mother in the nursing home this past Monday, I found several “prayer cards”…
Just over three years ago one of my many query letters for my novel, Cherry Bomb, caught the attention…
In Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation for today, he says: … it is our experiences that transform us—if we are willing…
I have read dozens of books about prayer—including my favorites from the Orthodox spiritual tradition, like Beginning to Pray, Courage…