Essays

Even as a child, I was fascinated with the concept of Haiku poetry.  It seemed madness to me to take something as free-flowing and abandoned as writing from the heart and applying such Draconian restrictions to it as 5 syllables followed by 7 syllables and...

I won’t go into all the reasons as to why I’d stayed away.  Suffice it to say, the Church had always been my sanctuary from the world and then, last year, the world invaded my sanctuary.  And so, befuddled and incensed, I stayed away....

It is sometimes in the unexpected minutiae that we are surprised, once again, by the fact that God’s design works just fine without any human tinkering.  I kept planning to start running again, but various obstacles kept coming up.  Proving forever true the...

I am a Martha but I’m trying harder to be a Mary.  It’s so hard for me to not be a Martha.  I like being productive.  I love being productive.  But after another recent face-off with death, I decided I don’t want my children remembering me as a...