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October 2013

October 08, 2013

When a Friend Dies

I received this group email not long ago: Our beloved Beth has passed away. We...

July 2013

July 23, 2013

The Impossible Shows Us How To Live

If you were to live a day as though you’d be dead at the end...

July 22, 2013

Saint Linda

Just about every morning for the eight-plus years we’ve lived in our house, the day...

July 10, 2013

Smiling Skulls: On Death and Diversion

With sinister skulls on their black Metallica and Megadeth T-shirts, the teenagers who snaked alongside...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

Remembering Deacon Patenotte

On Wednesday, June 12, 2013, at more or less the same time that I was...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

Lamenting an Imperfect Friendship

Walking on the sidewalk of Spokane, I read an email that made me stop still....

April 2013

April 11, 2013

Amour and Fear

Guest Post By David P. Clark, M.D. On the day I graduated from medical school...

April 08, 2013

More Poetry of Married Love

In a previous post, I used Richard Wilbur’s poem “for C” to talk about my...

April 03, 2013

The Seed in the Grave

When the creamy, letter-press-printed wedding invitation arrived on a wintry February day, it seemed an...

March 2013

March 28, 2013

We Are Not Forsaken

My daughter’s teeth were clenched from the brain tumor and so I would hold her...

March 15, 2013

Rodeo and the Church Calendar

Despite my Christian upbringing, I didn’t grow up with the church calendar. Easter was a...

February 2013

February 06, 2013

Visiting My Own Grave

Guest Post by Christine A. Scheller “My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I...

January 2013

January 06, 2013

The Anniversary of My Father’s Death

“After the first exile, there is no other.” —Rosellen Brown, The Autobiography of My Mother,...

November 2012

November 15, 2012

My Grandmother and the Hurricane, Both Gone Now

To live in the mercy of God. Awe, not comfort…. And awe suddenly passing beyond...

November 13, 2012

Margaret and the Blight Man Was Born for

Near the end of Kenneth Lonergan’s film, Margaret, a seventeen-year-old girl sits next to her...

October 2012

October 30, 2012

To Live by the Light of Fiction

“In the end, a story is never going to make a damn bit of difference...

October 25, 2012

Something Like Jasmine Meditates on Mortality

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

August 2012

August 10, 2012

The Final Chapter in a Promising Young Life

I was driving when it occurred to me that it has been twenty years since...

August 08, 2012

The Boy Who Lived Large

Friday we took the kids out of school early and hit the road for Aiken,...

July 2012

July 26, 2012

Heading Home on the Back Roads

Today Good Letters welcomes back former blogger Dyana Herron as a regular contributor. Dyana is...

June 2012

June 07, 2012

The Airman’s Final Flight

My cousin Tom Hardy died three weeks ago in Columbus, Mississippi, less than twenty miles...

May 2012

May 30, 2012

In the Religion of Love

In the religion of love to pray is to pass, by a shining word, into...

May 24, 2012

Why Wouldn’t I Be Fine?

“You OK?” Craig touches my hand, looks at me. We’re in the car, Sunday evening,...

May 24, 2012

My Rainbow Connection, Disconnected

It was a Saturday night and my wife, Becki, wanted to stream the documentary, Being...