I have been reading lately about bibliotherapy, and how the right book might cure a host of spiritual ills. Not self-help books. Novels. Biographies. Poetry collections. Essays. It’s a concept I …
Ordinary Time: Reaching for Here and Now
All I want is one ordinary day, a friend told me recently. A series of family crises had left her shaky and exhausted, and she longed for a spell of …
Recalling the Lost Art of Penmanship
Remember penmanship? It’s a quaint term in this digital age, calling up images of inkwells and quills and parchment. Most of us who learned to read with Dick and Jane …
Undercover Introvert
Sometimes I think that I have spent my life under deep cover. Most of it, anyway. There may have been a handful of early years when I was my true …
Weather Puritan: The Price of Spring
The groundhog has slated us for an early spring. This may be good news. Or not, depending on how much of a weather puritan you happen to be. In my …