It's amazing how different something can look when we are willing to see with new eyes, when we cast aside our preconceived ideas and our human need for ...
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I know things have been relatively quiet here for the past week or so. That's because I'm renegotiating my work/life schedule these days, and it's taking some ...
My latest Life Lines column:
I was at the tail end of a silent weekend retreat a few weeks ago when I began reaching my silent prayer saturation point. ...
Yesterday we spent the day -- two days, really -- wandering around the city of Assisi. Today we're going to venture outside the city walls. On our second day in ...
To tide you over until I can pull all the Assisi photos together for posts on Monday and Tuesday, here are some shots of the many wonderful beverages you'll ...
When I put Siena on our pilgrimage itinerary, it was mainly because I wanted to visit the church where St. Catherine of Siena's head rests. (The rest of her ...
I had waited to go to Florence for a long time, since I took an art history class in college, since I read E.M. Forster's A Room with a View and then fell ...
It's been almost three weeks since I returned from Italy, and I still haven't managed to write any posts about the experience or trade my Euro for U.S. ...
It’s easy to romanticize the idea of a pilgrimage, to turn it into something larger than life, something we think we can experience only when have the money, ...
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 our ...
In honor of the Feast of St. Benedict, I thought I would re-post my Times Union reflection on my trip to the Monastery of St. Benedict in Subiaco, Italy, four ...
Thanks to the thoughtfulness of my husband and the wonder of iMessage (free texts between Apple devices), I have been traipsing around Rome for the past few ...
It's hard to believe that in just about six months we'll be departing for Rome on our 13-day food-faith pilgrimage, Italy: A Feast for Body and Soul. Since I ...
So you're going to Italy and you want to know how to order a coffee. Okay, well, first things first. If you ask for coffee, "un caffé," you will get an ...
If you're planning to join us in Italy this fall for the Feast for Body and Soul food-faith pilgrimage, start paging through books on Italian travel now. It ...
My most recent Life Lines column, running in the current issue of Catholic New York, will give you a glimpse into the surprising way my food-faith pilgrimage to ...
One year from now we will be just back from the most amazing pilgrimage, a 13-day food and faith tour of Italy that will take us from Montecatini, Florence, ...
Dear Fellow Adventurer,
For most of my adult life, I dreamed of going to Italy. I wanted to pray in St. Peter’s Basilica. I wanted to know the country of my ...
I’m not much of a camper. I chalk it up to traumatic Girl Scout experiences as a kid -- think rain, mud, latrine duty, French toast cooked over a coffee can. ...
Two years ago at this time I was in the midst of a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Rome. Soon after, I wrote this travel story for the Albany Times Union. It is my ...