Yesterday—on September 1—Orthodox Christians celebrated the beginning of the Church’s New Year, also known as the “Indiction.” At my parish,…
Back in February I did a blog post called “WOW: The Third Essential Prayer.” I had forgotten about that post…
“People who leave a space for God… can be helped, and can change. They can learn to live with the…
My dear friend (and Goddaughter) Sue lost her mother on Tuesday. She lived out her final years in a nursing…
Last October I woke up on a rainy Monday (like today) with Karen Carpenter’s words, “Rainy days and Mondays always…
I woke up this morning in a mild panic. My month at the beach is exactly half over today. How…
Last Monday I reflected a bit on Brene Brown’s wonderful book, Daring Greatly. And then I strapped my courage…
I’m writing this post on Thursday afternoon, because I plan to leave Memphis around 7 a.m. Friday morning to drive…
I made another 400-mile round trip yesterday, to visit my mother in the nursing home in Jackson, Mississippi. I’ve been…
Of course it was Bette Davis, not me, who came up with that saying, but I can testify to it,…