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September 2018

September 25, 2018

Remembering Sassy

Sassy wasn’t her real name, and she wasn’t “sassy” at all. But as happens with...

September 14, 2018

Poetry Friday: “Field”

Spoiler alert: here is a poem that purports to describe a vision of heaven but...

September 06, 2018

The Disastrous Wizard of Oz

My teenage granddaughter Phoebe was visiting us from out of town. On these visits, we...

August 2018

August 06, 2018

Can a Racist Drive a Prius? Stereotypes and the Single Story

I think it's good for me when my stereotypes of others are challenged. Like this...

July 2018

July 09, 2018

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Our son Eric was four years old. My husband George, after teaching all day at...

July 06, 2018

Poetry Friday: “Pray That the Creek Don’t Dry Up”

Here is a poem about making a poem. The first stanza, a single sentence, stretches...

June 2018

June 26, 2018

The Pope’s Call to Saintliness

Did you know that you're meant to be a saint? So says Pope Francis, in...

May 2018

May 30, 2018

The Odyssey as Liturgy

I happened to be in the midst of re-reading Homer’s Odyssey when the current issue...

April 2018

April 10, 2018

Singing Silence in A Far Country Near

“Without the traffic, silence / itself would sound red birdsong…” As I’m reading these lines...

January 2018

January 09, 2018

Invisible Man

What made me pick up Ralph Ellison’s classic 1952 novel, Invisible Man? Had I ever...

December 2017

December 15, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Meditation on Soteriology”

Karen An-Hwei Lee lays out her poem “Meditation on Soteriology” so that it looks at...

December 01, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Scale”

As I read and re-read this poem, I enjoy noticing exactly when I’ve realize that...

November 2017

November 10, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Camp Meeting”

We’re familiar with the genre called “historical fiction.” But in “Camp Meeting: Old Saybrook, Connecticut,...

November 03, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Speculation: Along the Way”

Did you ever try finding words for the experience of prayer? Or for the sense...

November 02, 2017

The Poetry of Richard Wilbur

I don’t remember when I first starting reading Richard Wilbur’s poetry. But his death on...

October 2017

October 03, 2017

Richard Osler’s Hyaena Season

We’ve all suffered wounds in some way. If not the physical wounds of war or...

September 2017

September 13, 2017

There is Only This Present Moment

I’m trying to trust in God. My husband has had chronic fatigue and chest pain...

August 2017

August 22, 2017

Susan B. Anthony: Failure is Impossible

Just a few miles from my home in Rochester, NY, is the house where Susan...

July 2017

July 27, 2017

Still Pilgrim

Still Pilgrim. Just the title of Angela Alaimo O’Donnell’s new poetry collection makes you pause....

July 03, 2017

Nonviolence and the Virtue of Hope

It was nonviolence that initially brought me to my spiritual director, Fr. Bill Shannon. I...

June 2017

June 19, 2017

Reading Love Nailed to the Doorpost

If you want to be submerged in the depths of Jewish spirituality, this is the...

May 2017

May 24, 2017

Alleluia for the Easter Season

I used to find Easter a letdown. Lent is so full of the self-improvement activities...

May 10, 2017

Quartet for J. Robert Oppenheimer

What would you think of a biography of a famous person written in the form...

April 2017

April 17, 2017

Praying the Art of Sean Scully: The Match of Prose and Visual Art

When I finished reading Paul Anel’s article on the chapel art of Sean Scully, in...

March 2017

March 27, 2017

Heisenberg and the A-Bomb: Just Say No

I read through the article breathlessly, astonished at the moral implications of what I was...

February 2017

February 27, 2017

Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Our Rumbling Nation

This is an age of the world when nations are trembling and convulsed. A mighty...

February 01, 2017

John Slater’s Lean

What is poetry, anyway? I found myself musing about this as I sat with John...

January 2017

January 17, 2017

Black Lives, Black Art

I happened to be re-reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin when the current issue of Image (#90)...

January 10, 2017

Meeting Islam in Interfaith Friendships

In 1993 my husband George Dardess began visiting our local Islamic Center: first to learn...

December 2016

December 20, 2016

Kathleen Wakefield’s Invisible Stenographer

You’ve got to meet this character. She’s a stenographer by trade: From the outset she...