April is National Poetry Month, so I thought I’d share some of my favorite poetry collections by contemporary (mostly southern)…
This is a big weekend for those of us who take Mary of Egypt as our patron saint, and for…
A few weeks ago I started a new novel. It’s off to a slow start, for several reasons. For one…
I recently watched an old Willie Nelson movie, “Honeysuckle Rose,” about Willie’s infamous road trips he took with his band.…
My Orthodox friend, Lia Roussos Douglas, used to be a member at my parish here in Memphis, Saint John Orthodox…
A friend recently sent me a link to a blog titled “God’s Grace and Mom’s Alzheimer’s,” and specifically to a…
In Saturday’s Wall Street Journal, there’s an interesting question and answer in Dan Ariely’s column, “Ask Ariely.” The column title…
I arise today through God’s strength to pilot me, God’s might to uphold me, God’s wisdom to guide me, God’s…
Thirty years ago today, my husband, Dr. William/Father Basil Cushman, was ordained into the priesthood of the Orthodox Christian Church,…
I just finished reading my 6th book of 2017—This Close to Happy: A Reckoning With Depression by Daphne Merkin. Looking…