Month: January 2023

On Aging and Mortality

Sometimes I wish I were a deer for the sheer wonder of its speed or a beetle, small, hard to see, and with a shell that protects my soft guts from harm. But most days, I wish I were any animal, blissfully unaware that they will weaken and die one...

Five things I learned AFTER being a priest, Canon and monk

When I interview people about why they fund, and go, to church (for an upcoming memoir,) the answers I get never cease to amaze me.  And in truth, they were my own answers when I was younger.  People say things like It's where I find God. The friends I see...