Writing Motivators

Every so often someone asks me how I started writing. I didn’t plan to be a writer. My dream was to be a ninth-grade English teacher at Notre Dame Academy my whole life. That school has become Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin, and I haven’t spent one day teaching there. In fact, most of my life has […]

Reading My Way Through the Virus

Like many others are experiencing, lockdown has given me extra time. My talks and retreats have been cancelled. No more lunches or parties off our property. The upside of this deprivation is that besides writing more books, I’ve been able to read more. Here are a few: A retreat on images of Mary in art […]

Charity by Accepting Charity

Did you ever offer to help someone who firmly rejected your offer to help?  If so, how did you feel?  Conversely, how did you feel when you were able to be of assistance to someone?  Maybe you helped a person carry a load or cook a meal or drive somewhere. No doubt this act of […]

A Book, Books, and THE Book: The Power of Words

I just finished reading The Little Paris Bookshop, an international bestseller. It’s a delightful novel about a man who sells books from his “The Literary Apothecary” located on a barge. He has a gift for “reading” people and presenting them with just the right book to meet their needs. The book is a love story […]