This week’s photo: © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Every morning in spring, Evelyn kisses him goodbye – until the day a freak squall drags him away into the sea. Ten years go by. Evelyn sits by the window. Sensing her absence, her husband wakes, waiting for her, still. Turning away from the window with resignation thick as […]
I want to try to write a spiritual reflection every week, and this week is hard. I’m struggling with Deep Questions, torn between writing about idolatry, about my attempts to be true to God and God alone – whatever this means. I’m struggling with the difference: what it means to be afraid of someone as […]
PHOTO PROMPT © Ronda Del Boccio Click (don’t lick) this frog. If you dare. I used to dream of this. If only I had a car. If only my parents would let me drive…. Now, we’re in Badlands, South Dakota. Prairie dogs chitter at each other atop dusty mounds. Blue sky stretches for miles, clean and […]
I’m now back to regular work – yay – and back to having less free time than I’d like. That said, I really liked sharing spiritual reflections, so I was thinking of useful ones – and this one seems like a good one to share. Biblical Literalism vs WWJD? People have occasionally told me that […]
PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz Click the frog for adventures in literature! In her haste to leave a note on her way to work, Laura broke her husband’s heart. She meant to tell him this: The food at Charlie’s last night was terrible, but there’s left overs in the fridge. Between the mostly torn notepad paper and […]
This is my monthly post for The Insecure Writer’s Support Group, where once a month we share secret details about our personal lives…? I see your prying question, cohosts Pat Garcia, J.Q. Rose, and Natalie Aguirre! I will do my best to pretend to answer while revealing nothing. June 3 question – Writers have secrets! What are one […]
Hi dad, The human race is going through some tough times right now, around in the world, but especially in my home nation, the United States. I’ve been praying – and thinking – and praying, and here’s the best I can come up with: the world at large could learn from the Trinity. It is […]
Happy Pride Month! In honor of Pride Month, I’ve decided to reveal to the world that I’m just not that into you, like ever. It’s one of the rarest places to be on the sexual attraction spectrum, or so I’m told. Personally, I kind of like it here. When I first saw the term asexual, […]
Dear God, Well, yesterday went badly in several ways. Top of my list is realizing that, okay, I really need to stop going to confession to have my sins forgiven. I need to stop even thinking about it. Because obviously this is not working. I know you have told me this many times, Father, so […]
For the past couple days, I’ve been thinking about all of the corruption in the world. No matter how hard we work to make things better, it’s like we’re in this nuclear arms race against evil, where evil keeps building better mousetraps. For example, I read this incredibly heart-rending peace against racism in the National […]
Anne Higa 