Life in a Hermitage
I'm sitting in the great room of the monastery building at Holy Wisdom, watching cold rain through the windows, pouring down. I can hear the very, »
Posting On... Any Day?
Dear Friends, Originally, I told many people that I would publish new posts every Sunday. I've found that hasn't been realistic. Because of traveling, unreliable internet, »
Hermitage Stay Begins
In case anyone out there has been romanticizing the start of my hermitage stay, it's taken me about 36 hours to unpack, grocery shop, realize things »
What We Came Home To
Coming home after a long time away makes you see things differently. For instance: I came home... and saw our house differently. Our bookshelves and closets »
How Many Books Are Enough?
Tiny picnic on the train... It's hard for me to reflect deeply when I'm traveling - my brain is focusing on so many different things that »
A Week in Seattle
Last Monday night around midnight in Oakland we got on the "Coast Starlight" train, north to Seattle - about a 24 hour trip. We arrived after »
