My friend, Leslie, and I are sipping morning coffee on a bench near my patio overlooking the Hudson River. We are high-up in the woods of the Palisades, looking down. It is a spectacular scene. The river is straddled by the city on its east bank and the mighty Palisades on the western, Jersey side. …
What is your position on population control?
I would probably have had a different answer to that question had I not just read a stunning article in the June issue of Mother Jones Magazine The cover reads: WHO’S TO BLAME FOR THE POPULATION CRISIS? A) THE VATICAN; B) WASHINGTON; C) YOU. The answer of course is all of the above plus plenty …
What is your abundance?
In my novel, The Sublime Transformation of Vera Wright, the main character, Vera, is told by God to serve a dinner of loaves & fishes to her faithful followers. “Bring me five loaves and two fishes,” God tells her, “and I will bring you a miracle.” Though the idea of this new sacramental ritual occurred …
The spiritual gifts of motherhood
I am well-schooled in the academic sense, but my true teachers in life have not been books or professors. My true teachers have been two wide-eyed children, now two young men, one twenty-five-years-old, the other twenty-one. Since they were born, I have (had to) learn, re-learn, (practice, practice, practice), and finally, MASTER the exquisitely painful …
