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November 2017

November 08, 2017

You Can’t Hide from Winter

Winter is coming. All of northern Michigan seems to whisper the warning. The sun is...

November 02, 2015

My Soul Thirsts

My children’s Michigan fact book says you can’t go more than eight miles without hitting...

October 2015

October 14, 2015

Driving the Dark Roads

The other day I got an email from a high-school boyfriend, which drove me headlong...

March 2015

March 12, 2015

Signs, Parables, and The Lord of the Rings

I’m reading The Lord of the Rings trilogy for the first time. I inwardly cringed...

June 2014

June 19, 2014

Medicating the Religious Mind

I’ve been taking an antidepressant for six months now. Psychiatry wins: I’m a more functional...

May 2014

May 22, 2014

Light One Candle

Every week after Mass I light a candle. I love the smell of hot wax...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Slumping Toward the Altar

Congratulations to Jessica Mesman Griffith and Amy Andrews, who won a 2014 Christopher Award for...

April 02, 2014

Against Gratitude

The other day a Facebook friend linked to a blog post on fifteen ways to...

March 2014

March 11, 2014

Tuesday Morning at the Old Asylum, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. For most of the fall after we moved to Northern Michigan, I...

March 10, 2014

Tuesday Morning at the Old Asylum, Part 1

It’s probably not okay to call it the insane asylum. It’s officially the Village at...

February 2014

February 07, 2014

A Feast of Love

It’s nineteen degrees today, the lakes are frozen solid, and the snowdrifts are twice my...

December 2013

December 19, 2013

Blow on the Coal of the Heart

I light the first candle of Advent. We have no wreath. This is our first...

November 2013

November 25, 2013

My Soul Thirsts

My children’s Michigan fact book says you can’t go more than eight miles without hitting...

October 2013

October 30, 2013

You Can’t Hide from Winter

Winter is coming. All of northern Michigan seems to whisper the warning. The sun is...

October 01, 2013

New World

“There is no death, only a changing of worlds.” —Chief Seattle At night I lie...

July 2013

July 16, 2013

Holy Water

"One must have faith and pray; the water will have no virtue without faith." –St....

June 2013

June 24, 2013

Friendship, by Guilt or Grace

In February I published Love and Salt, a book of letters I wrote with my...

June 04, 2013

Booked: Reading My Way Back to Faith

I accidentally read my way back to church in graduate school. I hadn’t been any...

May 2013

May 15, 2013

A Corporal Work of Mercy

I was nearly two weeks late, so I already knew the answer, but I took...

April 2013

April 17, 2013

Mother of Sorrows: Colm Toibin’s Testament of Mary

Good Letters welcomes back former blogger Jessica Mesman Griffith, author of the new book Love...