The above photo is of a group of children holding icons at St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in Chicago. Click…
A Footnote, the Desert, and My Quest for an Elusive Saint I just finished reading Wild Woman by Amy Frykholm.…
Our Publishing History Who is that woman with me, and why are we dressed like lumberjacks? Good questions! She is…
Women of St. John Orthodox Church Fall Retreat The Women of my parish, St. John Orthodox Church in Memphis, were…
And my Name Day! Today is the Feast Day of my patron saint, Mary of Egypt. Over the years I’ve…
A Pandemic Observed What Mourning My Husband and Son Taught Me about the Fear of Death I’ve been trying to…
Grieving Infertility During Lent of 2018, I wrote a series of six blog posts about a book called Time and…
A taste of my Orthodox Christian faith folded inside my novel and my short stories . . . . I’m…
Orthodox Christian Mysticism In my previous post, “Female Mystics, Part I,” I wrote about female mystics in the Episcopalian, Catholic,…
Hello, readers! It’s halfway through the month of June and I’ve only got two “summer reading” books to report on.…