Last September I did a post called, “Permission to NOT be Happy?” And the previous September, a (shorter) post called,…
I continue to find treasures between the covers of a wonderful anthology, A Syllable of Water: Twenty Writers of Faith…
My plan for today’s post has changed. If you read Friday’s post, you know that’s I’ve recently re-discovered Thomas Moore’s…
I woke up this morning—slowly, not wanting to leave that mystical world between sleeping and waking, wanting to hold onto…
Every stage of the writer’s work—well, maybe I should only speak of my own here—can be crazy-making. Having read…
“People who leave a space for God… can be helped, and can change. They can learn to live with the…
“Moderation adorns all things. For without moderation, even things deemed good become harmful.”—Saint Isaac the Syrian Eight years ago, I…
While in Gulfport visiting friends on Monday, I checked my email on my iPhone just to see if any agents…
Tomorrow, April 1, is my Name Day. In the Orthodox Church, one’s Name Day is the day that a person’s…