True Safety
I was getting home late on a Saturday night from a gathering at a friend’s home, so I did all the things I ought to as a single woman alone after dark: looked around me before getting out of the car, kept my keys in my fist, made sure I walked on the more brightly […]
Always More
“I’m in the house if you have questions,” he would say, leaving me there in his pottery studio. Grateful to be alone with my beginning efforts, I would nod, determined to figure out my own answers because when I asked, he told me too much. I had no inner framework, no way to store what […]
Greater things (for Barry)
Sent to our church when I was little, the young pastor remembered me before I remembered him. My first mentor. His apprentice. Helping him lead a retreat in the mountains of North Carolina, which I had done for years, I stood in front of the old wooden altar where I first heard the voice of […]
Away from Home
I fought back tears in the vestibule of a family restaurant just a few blocks from the Catedral Primada in Toledo, Spain. It was so crowded with soaking tourists, the host had stopped adding names to the waitlist. There I was, starving and shivering, realizing that I had six more hours of walking around Toledo […]