start & finish

I witnessed the beginning and end of a nun’s life last week. At the monastery I regularly visit, they had a transfer in, who did a slightly revised Final Vows (as she was already a nun, but with a different order), and the parts of a nun’s funeral, from reception of her cremains to burial […]

Kaleidescope

This summer: my tooth, my friend’s dad, the Supreme Court, presidential immunity, my sister, my aunt, the former president, the president, the new presidential candidate, my lower back, my softening jawline. I’m going to spare you the verbs and the direct and indirect objects. I think you get it. I’ve been reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s […]