All Stars!
These two gorgeous boys are my nephews – Owen is the one with braces on his teeth and Enzo is gearing up to pitch. You may recognize them from the August page of this year’s calendar. They are two of the funniest, most energetic boys I know. They live next door to my parents […]
BC Theology Department
I was so honored to be asked to speak to the Theology Department at Boston College. The place is teeming with living legends: Lisa Cahill, Ken Himes (Michael’s brother), Robert Imbelli, Bob Daly, James Keenan, Catherine Cornille and a host of others. I have read their work and marveled at their scholarship, understanding and depth […]
Fr Michael Himes
What a teacher! Cathleen asked me to attend one of her classes at Boston College, saying the professor was the most brilliant person she had ever met (except, of course, for her aging parents). So I went, expecting that her opinion had been formed largely by her youthful enthusiasm. But no. This was the real […]
Martha McCann Rose
As I said in an earlier post, Martha is my oldest friend. We met in fifth grade and have been friends ever since. She’s been my touchstone all my life – the person I return to for wisdom and strength and perspective and she has never let me down. In spite of our differences – […]
Salve Regina or the Mercy of God
My oldest friend, Martha McCann Rose, is the Head of the Department of Education at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. She invited me to come and speak to some of her students this week and I leaped at the chance. Salve Regina is one of the most beautiful colleges in the country, with […]
The Most Beautiful Church In the World
I’ve never seen a church like Our Lady of Malibu. Its open spaces, full of light, seem like a vision of heaven. Everything about it is beautiful, simple and clear. Fr Bill, the pastor, has invited me to come and speak twice now, and it has been a marvelous experience both times. The people of […]
Beautiful People
These are my friends Lizzy Bentley and Arge O’Neil, the people responsible for my fund raising forays in Malibu Beach, along with their two beautiful sons Lucan (sipping from his fancy water bottle) and Isaiah (gravely reading from the latest issue of Highlights). Lizzy came to India in 1987 where she worked with SEWA (Self-Employed […]
Ancestral Homes
Last week, I took Mom and Dad on a tour of our old houses – we visited three of the four I had lived in as a child and a young adult. This one – in Fall River – is the one we were in longest: I was 2 when we moved in and 17 […]
The Parents
The children are the future, but in the context of eternity, so are the parents! I return to my home in America as often as I can to be with Mom and Dad because few things in life give me as much happiness, few things in life are as simple or as easy to do. […]
The Kids!
There they were – at last! Seeing the children, even when they are sleepy or busy doing their taxes, has to be the best thing in this life. I know I have said it before, but I am SUCH a lucky mother.