The thing no one ever tells you about joy is that it has very little real pleasure in it. — Zadie Smith Joy is complicated. It is easy to miss amid scurrying, forget amid noise, and neglect amid fear. It can be invisible in the heaviness of cru...

On why I still write them, how to find words during these times , and their place in the order of things. Growing up, our family received a lot of Holiday letters. We would put them in a wooden reindeer built to display the cards during the Holida...

Make me an instrument of peace. Let me find comfort, solace, and light in times of conflict, doubt, and darkness. Make me an instrument of peace. Let me choose forgiveness, humility, and compassion in times of anger, separation, and isolatio...

The cattle lower their heads as they enter/ the chapel. Even the lowly will be anointed./ Because Francis too had his time in the wilderness, lost in the mountains outside Assisi. He was/ drunk for months. Coming down from the hillside/ he kissed a m...