To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. Mary Oliver When I was 13 years old, I got my first pair of glasses. I remember...

I’ve had the pleasure of co-leading two retreats recently: one for women and the other for men. When I introduced myself, I mentioned...

Emerson said that life is a succession of lessons that must be lived in order to be understood. Religion is the same way. Here are 5...

My husband and I got engaged over the phone when we were living on opposite coasts. When we finally said good night and I was sitting...

Today I want to highlight three practical aspects of Catholicism that mean the world to me. Retreat Houses Dotted across this country and...

When my daughters were little, we stayed away from Barbie dolls. They were too sexualized for my taste. The girls grew up with lots of...

Not long ago, I spent a weekend with my son and daughter-in-law in Concord, Massachusetts. We visited Walden Pond, a national historical...

The Bustle in a House The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth – The sweeping up the...

When I was a young girl there was an old upright piano in our garage. Only the top third of the keys worked, but I took to that piano...

I’m told that an identity crisis isn’t a diagnosable condition (except for dissociative identity disorder), so there aren’t any typical...

Let’s face facts. We Catholics have never been truly faithful to Jesus. In the end, none of us have followed those teachings that most...

We humans are so predictable. No matter a person’s beliefs about the existence of God, we can’t help ourselves. We have a need to...

“This is, all told, a stirring epic of what the Gospel is all about.” The Christian Century (February 18, 1970). The past can come back...

Personality and Faith, and the Mind-Body-Spirit Movement In last week’s blog I shared parts of a Zoom conversation I had with my four...

Three of my four children no longer identify as Catholic. Recently, I arranged a family Zoom with all four of them to try and find out...

Pews are a form of public privacy, intimate space widely shared. One morning it occurred to me that we “needed” a bench in our spare...

My brother met a man decked out head-to-toe in Raider’s football merchandise. A true-blue fan, he even sported a Raider’s tattoo on his...