The temptation toward lust, some may assume, is something that I don’t experience, because I am severely physically disabled and live a fairly sheltered life. But I’m human. Fully human in every way including sin. Nobody is immune from temptation. And what is a sheltered life these days? Images and stories that reduce the human […]
Weighing all of 70 pounds, I doubt that anyone would accuse me of the sin of gluttony. But I don’t have to overeat to be a glutton. Looking Back When I was little, I never wanted to eat one of my family’s favorite meals: Shake ‘n Bake pork chops. Instead, my mother always cooked sausages […]
I don’t think I’ve ever suffered from low self-esteem. As the smiling girl in the wheelchair, I’ve experienced much praise and extra complementary attention from childhood onward. Although I have sometimes suffered from self-doubt, anxiety, and even self-loathing, my love of self remains undaunted. Throughout my life, I have undoubtedly thought too much of myself, […]
The myth about stars is that they’re far from where we are. You, to a grain of sand at distant end of beach, may seem colossally out of reach ‘midst vast and varied phenomena, as is our Sun to Andromeda. But you could soon traverse the space arriving freely at the place where sits the […]
You never know what you might find in your family tree. Passionate about genealogical research as I sense the gratitude that I owe to my ancestors, I can’t tell you how thrilled I was to find among them a celebrated poet! I discovered that my tenth great-grandmother is Anne Bradstreet, who is called America’s first […]
