Category: Reflections
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Where Did Everybody Go?
Every August, Italy hangs a sign in the window and stops. On Ferragosto, fallow fields, screen sabbath, and a cypress forest full of families doing nothing in a highly organized fashion.
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Many Happy Returns
A birthday is an anniversary, and an anniversary marks the staying. Reflections on marriage, calling, and country from a fault line in Sicily.
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Walk On The Wild Side
A burial plot in old New England forest, a long-overdue morning at Walden Pond, and the wilderness I did not realize I had been missing until I was surrounded by it again.
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Shake Awake
A 4.4 earthquake, eight weeks of summer break, and the daily work of standing ground when the earth refuses to stay still.
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Not On My Bingo Card
A family trip to Amsterdam, four homemade bingo cards, and grace found outside the itinerary.
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Kin In Spirit
A papal visit in Naples, a phone-free teenager, a crowd full of joy, and a bus stop blessing I did not see coming.
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The Blue Box
Our teenager says we are damaging his aura. We call it the Blue Box, the brief stretch of years when all four of us still live under one roof.
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I Ate My Neighbor’s Cat
I ate the cat. Or so I said. Comic disasters in Italian open into something larger about late learning, humility, and finally picking up an oar.
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We Were Here
A week in England with family, football dreams, royal rooms, old buildings, and the British Museum opens into a reflection on history past and present, the close of Lent, and what it means to say we were here.
Captain Reverend Mother 