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Post-op
It has been seven years since I had major surgery after a long illness, surgery that put me on a path to healing. Usually on this anniversary I re-share certain pictures on social media, remembering...
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Of Streets at Night
Memory holds on to such funny little details: the hat I lost at a bar on Arlington St. The ride down the grad-school elevator on Friday afternoons to meet friends. The fancy piano at the fancy lounge...
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How to slow the turning
I lay on my mat after a steamy and exhausting yoga practice on the last day of the year. The day had started with a stressful phone call ensuring that stress would follow me into the new year, and...
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Ignatius and me in Barcelona: Companionship, reliance and faith
He was afraid that if he had a companion with him, he would lose some of that supreme trust in God, deflecting it onto his companion. – Pedro de Ribadeneira, writing of Ignatius’s travel from Manresa...
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Born in Drive
My mother describes me as having been “born in drive”. Apparently on the first day of some toddler play group I became so excited by the promise of meeting new friends that I ran into the room...
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In a certain light
Behold God beholding you…and smiling. – Anthony de Mello, SJ We probably would have taken tons of pictures of Scala dei Turchi even if we hadn’t been there during the most beautiful hour just before...
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Gentle with her
Maggie was my yoga teacher the summer I was sickest. Young and healthy, kind without being showy about it, she is a memorable character from that time of trying to hold together what was falling apart....
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What I’m into, March 2017
March: busy, musical, Lenten. Here’s what I’ve been into. Books God Moments: Unexpected Encounters in the Ordinary I was delighted to get an early peek at Andy Otto’s God Moments which releases...
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The thing worth chasing: on saying goodbye to a friend
I get awfully emotionally seeing the people I love receive the Eucharist. When I was quite ill with Crohn’s, before surgery put me into remission, I was often unable to stand through mass. I would...
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Coming out of the dark
I hope I don’t die in the spring. I remember exactly where I was when I had that disconcerting thought. I was driving with the sunroof open through the busiest intersection of my urban neighborhood,...
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The shower and the snow
This time last year I was home on medical leave, and my soon-to-be-husband was working morning shifts. He would wake around 2:00 am, which didn’t bother me much since I had nowhere to be. We’d chat...
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All the ways we shimmer
Why does it take so long to figure out what is good for us? Why are we in our 20s before we realize that greasy pizza makes us feel yucky the next day, or that too much coffee makes us jittery? Why do...
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Why we ruined our wedding pictures
“Honey,” I said a few months before the wedding, “everyone says that we should make lists of our priorities for the wedding so that we know what the each other’s non-negotiables are.” There had been no...
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The Perilous Journey – A guest post for Woodland Theatre Company
I’m guest posting again on the Woodland Theatre Company blog about the production of Titanic that opened last weekend and continues this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. As family lore has it, my...
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A new family – my guest post for Woodland Theatre Company
I’m guest posting on the Woodland Theatre Company blog about our upcoming production of Titanic. How long since we first met? Has it been three days or four? So sings Bandmaster Hartley during one of...
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The vocation of singleness
I have to tell you about my vocation to the single life, but I don’t have much time. In a few short hours I will be married, and no single person will ever be able to relate to me again. Before I met...
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Little loyalties, to Christ and to all
I’ve never been a very good friend. I’m the type of person who expects to be able to pick up where a friendship has left off, regardless of whether I have picked up the phone in the interim. I have a...
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The thing worth chasing: on saying goodbye to a friend
I get awfully emotionally seeing the people I love receive the Eucharist. When I was quite ill with Crohn’s, before surgery put me into remission, I was often unable to stand through mass. I would...
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Coming out of the dark
I hope I don’t die in the spring. I remember exactly where I was when I had that disconcerting thought. I was driving with the sunroof open through the busiest intersection of my urban neighborhood,...
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The shower and the snow
This time last year I was home on medical leave, and my soon-to-be-husband was working morning shifts. He would wake around 2:00 am, which didn’t bother me much since I had nowhere to be. We’d chat...
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