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.…
Last year I had the blessing of reading an advance reader’s copy of my friend River Jordan’s new book, Confessions…
The talented children’s author Charlotte Riggle has done it again. With help from the gifted illustrator, R. J. Hughes, “Charli”…
One of my favorite hymns that we sing in the Orthodox Church during the Nativity Season is all about preparing……
Thanksgiving—a favorite American holiday—lands on the calendar every year just a week or so after the Orthodox Nativity Fast begins…