Faith, Fiction, Friends

Inevitably for me, holidays like Christmas are accompanied by all those ghosts of Christmas Past, the holiday celebrations I remember a...

In August of 2013, I found myself spending a weekend with my mother in a retirement home, and all I can think about is poetry. My m...

I’ve been reading Angela Alaimo O’Donnell’s Mortal Blessing: A Sacramental Farewell , about the death of her mother and what she learne...

The most difficult writing assignment I’ve ever had occurred this year. At the request of the family, I wrote my mother’s obituary....

Two classic works on grief are A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis and John Gunther’s Death Be Not Proud . Lewis was writing about the deat...