I had a bit of a health scare this week. A major blockage (80 percent) in a major artery required a stent. But I am feeling great — and grateful. It all started when I was in Assisi a few weeks ago and felt crushing pain in my chest on the walk up the ...
September always feels like the start of a new year to me, much more so than Jan. 1 ever does. It must be the perennial student in me. I can’t even resist ...
In the span of one week, at my job as a Church communications director, I had two people separately accuse me of completely opposite — and equally untrue — ...
"I’ve done my best work, really, my most important work, from the ages of maybe 57 to now." That quote is from the poetic writer and musician Patti Smith, ...
When we were planning our date night this week, there was only one place on my list of suggestions: The Hollow Bar & Kitchen on North Pearl Street in ...
Five weeks from today, our Italy: A Feast for Body and Soul pilgrimage will depart from JFK airport bound for Rome. The 40 of us will spend 13 days making ...
When a friend gave me a week of her CSA share, I knew I had to act fast. I had bags of beautiful summer abundance sitting on my counter and only a few days ...
Time for a little honesty. I woke up this morning feeling beyond down in the dumps. Actually I've been waking up that way a lot lately, save for a few days ...
My latest Life Lines column running in the current issue of Catholic New York:
Every year, when summer rolls around, I vow to work less and play more, or at ...
To celebrate the Feast of St. Clare, I'm doing a Flashback Monday post (I know, it doesn't quite have the same ring, does it?) to something I wrote three ...
