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April 2017

April 05, 2017

The Beauty Dialogues, Part 4

The following is a response to Morgan Meis’s letter posted yesterday. Dear Morgan: I’m enjoying...

January 2017

January 23, 2017

The World at Midday

I spent Christmas Eve with my mom last month for the first time in years....

March 2016

March 07, 2016

The Abandoned, Broken, and Burned

By the time you read this, inshallah, we will have the new dishwasher purchased and...

January 2015

January 08, 2015

Girl Meets God in the Classroom, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. On the first day of my class “Spiritual Autobiographies: Theirs and Ours,”...

December 2014

December 12, 2014

It’s Advent and I’m Done Waiting

This is not an Advent post. There are enough of those out there. Writing of...

February 2013

February 26, 2013

The Poverty of Language

Another exercise. This one an exercise in seeing deeply, visualization, sketching from memory, and composing...

January 2013

January 16, 2013

A Requiem for Rejects

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering....

June 2012

June 12, 2012

Stations of the Cross on the A Train, Part One

Hot town, summer in the city / Back of my neck getting burnt and gritty…...

June 08, 2012

Children Before the Ravaging

Even if you only saw the trailers for the 2005 film, The Exorcism of Emily...

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...

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