Living in Pandemic Time

by | Apr 30, 2020 | Life, Seasons, Time, Work, Writing, writing journey

We’ve heard of kairos time and chronos time. Maybe, tongue in cheek, now we have “pandemic time”. Indeed, how do we define time during a pandemic? There is the slow, thick movement of monotonous days at home during quarantines. Simultaneously, there is the sense of...

Poems for Lent

by | Mar 8, 2019 | Lent, Poetry, poetry by others, Uncategorized

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day by Gerard Manley Hopkins I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night! what sights you, heart, saw; ways you went! And more must, in yet longer light’s delay. With witness...

Quotes from A Wrinkle in Time

by | Jun 4, 2018 | Books, Quotes, Uncategorized

One of my favorite books of all time is A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. It’s a bit challenging to succinctly explain the effect this book had on my life. Of course, I only realize it all now, years later after the fact. I was 10 years old when I...

This is a Strange Place (by Madeleine L’Engle)

by | Mar 1, 2017 | Poetry

“This is a strange place” This is a strange place and I would be lost were it not for all the others who have been here before me. It is the alien space  of your absence.  It has been called, by some,  the dark night of the soul. But it is absence of dark...

Poetry by Madeleine L’Engle

by | Dec 20, 2016 | Advent, Poetry

Madeleine L’Engle is probably best known for her book A Wrinkle in Time (which remained one of my favorite books growing up), but did you know she wrote sequels to A Wrinkle in Time, and she also wrote poetry, nonfiction, and several volumes of memoirs, totaling...