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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...

January 2018

January 24, 2018

The Shore after the Storm

The sun rises over the ocean where I live, two miles from the Atlantic. You...

January 23, 2018

The Love Song of Pepper Smith

The day of Pepper Smith’s funeral, it was a stiff fifteen degrees—ironic weather for a...

December 2017

December 14, 2017

The Sentences of William H. Gass

Last week, one of my favorite authors, William H. Gass, died at ninety-three. He was...

November 2017

November 14, 2017

Remembering Father George

My priest has died. Or rather, in Eastern Orthodox terminology, he has reposed. He has...

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...

November 01, 2017

Remembering Richard Wilbur (1921-2017), Part 2

Richard Wilbur was always a formalist at heart, but one attuned to the rhythms of...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

Remembering Richard Wilbur (1921-2017), Part 1

It was back in the summer of 1995 during Image’s Glen Workshop that I had...

September 2017

September 11, 2017

Remembering 9/11 in Washington D.C.

Sixteen years later, 9/11 seems so distant that it is merely a touchstone for rhetoric....

November 2015

November 12, 2015

Sleeping in Slave Quarters at Sweet Briar College

From my office window I can see the pale yellow plantation house, its sharply pitched...

October 2015

October 12, 2015

Lucia Berlin: A Master of Catholic Fiction, Part 1

By Jenny Shank In September, Lucia Berlin’s posthumous collection of selected short stories A Manual for...

September 2015

September 08, 2015

Blood and Silver

By Caroline Langston I stood in the security line at the Louis Armstrong International Airport...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

Lectio Divina for a Life

My friend Cindy’s memorial service was at the Quaker Meeting she’d attended for years. The...

March 18, 2014

Memory: Jubilee and Knell

A friend mentioned a line from Hannah and Her Sisters the other day: “But in...

December 2013

December 06, 2013

Rich in Rituals

I spent fifteen months in South Korea once on a military base we knew would...