As we settle back into Ordinary Time in our liturgical calendar, it strikes me as a more challenging task this time around. It’s not hard to see that there nothing ordinary about “Ordinary Time” at this point in 2026. While the Scripture readings and the ...
This Soul Seeing essay originally ran in the July 5, 2025, issue of the National Catholic Reporter:
As I drove down the New York State Thruway, headed ...
Growing up in the 1960s and ’70s, our home was adorned with a large portrait of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The same one hung in my grandmother’s home. Back ...
Happy Feast of St. Joan of Arc!
When I was in a difficult stretch a few years back, Joan of Arc became my guide and inspiration. I had the image you see ...
Fear seems to be ever-present in our world these days, but we don't have to live there. When we move forward in the face of fear, we discover unexpected ...
When I initially developed the Stillpoint Retreat, which I have led at Pyramid Life Center for six years and counting, my hope was to give people a space ...
Here’s the Life Lines column I wrote 23 years ago, in the days following 9/11. So much has changed since that time. Our world has changed. My family has ...
On a recent rainy morning, I ventured up to Trader Joe’s on Wolf Road in Albany, armed with a vacation snack wish list from my daughter, Olivia, who would be ...
My annual tribute to the baby I lost 26 years ago today, the baby I call Grace:
For the past few days I’ve been looking at the numbers on the calendar, ...
