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“Beware of Co-Opting the Meaning of Mary’s Yes”
This essay was published today — the Solemnity of the Annunciation — on CatholicArtistConnection.com as part of their Lenten series of...
“Heirloom”
Two faded photographs. Could be a single photo; each completing the other. They emerge from a mildewy box in a mildewy cellar filled...
“Freckle” (RIP Dad 2/10/17)
I’m four years old. Dad is scrubbing my face with a washcloth. He keeps scrubbing just under my lower lip, just above my chin. “It...
“The Spelling Bee”
From the Scripps National Spelling Bee website: The word “bee”, as used in “spelling bee”, is one of those language puzzles that has...
“Summer Heat” (watercolor) and “Portal to the Sky” (chalk pastel)
I am happy to say that these two works appear in “Reflections 2025”, the literary magazine published by the University of Southern Maine...
“Intervention”
It is affecting for me to see this very personal essay appear in “Reflections 2025”, the literary magazine published by the University of...
“Advent Reflection”
This reflection was posted on the website for Catholic Artist Connection yesterday: https://catholicartistconnection.com/wait-for-the-lor...
“Thoughts on My Legacy”
This essay appears page 31 of the inaugural issue of The Branches: A Journal of Literature and Philosophy ; one of my paintings is the...
“Resilience as a Benedictine Virtue — An Oblate Reflects on the Closing of Queen of Angels Monastery”
It’s an honor and a blessing for me that this essay appears in the 2024 Fall/Winter issue of “Benedictines”, a journal published by the...










