The line of women stretched long and with meaning, people who wanted to talk with me.  I had just finished speaking for 90 minutes, followed by a brief Q & A, and yet they welcomed more of me. This is my heart's honor. There were three groups of women, interspersed among each other. There was […]

Alone in my room, I feel the onset of alarm.  I lay my whole body across it, to muffle the earsplitting sound. To fall asleep, I read a long article from a ten-year-old National Geographic about Hurrican Andrew in Florida.  On the cover, there's a dirty, sticky, sunburned Marine holding a newly homeless toddler.  The […]

I was forty when I finally fell in love with a man who was a widower.   He'd been married exactly one week when his wife died. Car accident- she'd gone out for butterscotch topping for the sundaes they were going to have after they finished wallpapering their bathroom.   He didn't date for five […]

Stephen King says your writing space needs only one thing: a door which you are willing to shut. "The closed door is your way of telling the world and yourself that you mean business; you have made a serious commitment to write and intend to walk the walk as well as talk the talk." With […]

Little by little, I found the beat again, and after that I found the joy again. I came back to my family with gratitude, and back to my work with relief - I came back to it the way folks come back to a summer cottage after a long winter, checking first to make sure […]

What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment […]

O God, I know that if I do not love Thee with all my heart, with all my mind, with all my soul and with all my strength, I shall love something else with all my heart and mind and soul and strength. Grant that putting Thee first in all my lovings I may be […]

O God, I know that if I do not love Thee with all my heart, with all my mind, with all my soul and with all my strength, I shall love something else with all my heart and mind and soul and strength. Grant that putting Thee first in all my lovings I may be […]