Search the Sea

Search the Sea is going private in the next few days, as I try, as I am with Desert Year, to extract some of the material for publication in...

The last several days: very, very difficult. At lunch, a friend sat down with someone new to me, someone who, as it turned out, lost her hu...

Sometimes I still need to write over here, in relative anonymity. Still in the house tonight. The Quiet Husband went out of town to visit h...

In real life, I don't think that I can ever move. We've lived in this house 26 years and I am a Keeper of Papers and Books and Phot...

I don't think that a single day lies ahead in the next two weeks in which some form of scheduled interaction with someone is not require...

Here's something pretty cool. The Jesuit community at Georgetown University has created a series of videos to explain and comment on th...

I have been thinking about this problem of Lent. Like many of my sisters whose children have vanished from our lives, I don't see the n...

A couple of the posters on the FB site Oh No, You Didn't -- Things Said to a Grieving Parent Better Left Unsaid have mentioned conversa...