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February 2013

February 13, 2013

What are You Doing for Lent?

“So what are you doing for Lent this year, Bill?” This was my annual question...

January 2013

January 29, 2013

Beauty Is as Beauty Does

The current issue of Image (#75) is full of rich mini-essays on some of the...

January 09, 2013

Soul Friends

“One’s ‘spiritual life’ isn’t apart from the rest of one’s life, something that goes on...

December 2012

December 18, 2012

The Poetry of Married Love

When my husband was told he’d have quadruple bypass surgery the next day, we were—believe...

November 2012

November 29, 2012

Books for Holiday Giving

Kudos to the university presses that are publishing books of the soundest scholarship for the...

November 06, 2012

Denise Levertov: A Poet’s Life, Part Two

Yesterday, in Part One of my review of the major new biography, Denise Levertov: A Poet’s...

November 05, 2012

Denise Levertov: A Poet’s Life, Part One

I thought I knew Denise Levertov. In the 1970s, she and my husband were both...

October 2012

October 25, 2012

Something Like Jasmine Meditates on Mortality

Living with leukemia, I naturally meditate often on our human mortality. No, often is the...

October 07, 2012

Eggs, Milk, and Maternal Instinct

When I saw my eye doctor recently for a potentially serious condition, she recommended that...

September 2012

September 12, 2012

Imago Dei

What does it mean to write poems in the Christian tradition? Creative writing teachers at...

August 2012

August 24, 2012

Dear Diary

For my ninth birthday, I was given a green leather-bound diary with a lock and...

August 06, 2012

Varieties of Quiet: Christian Wiman’s Pensées

So profound are Christian Wiman’s pensées in the current issue of Image that I feel...

July 2012

July 17, 2012

Praying the Divine Office with Flannery O’Connor

For over twenty-five years, my husband and I have prayed morning and evening prayer together....

June 2012

June 19, 2012

Still Life

I walk to the kitchen cupboard to take out plates for dinner, and the corner...

May 2012

May 29, 2012

Let All Tend Inward to Me

Another presidential campaign season is upon us, with all its ugly divisiveness and demonizing of...