Sep 17, 2012
I’ve emerged from a summer of writing in Wyoming and I’m back on the road doing talks with people in Texas and… http://t.co/og7pg2hH # Here’s a simple step you can take to help SAFE California no matter where you live. Head on over to...Aug 20, 2010
Here it is August and I’ve been in the writing cave since June. I always underestimate what writing a book entails. “River” tells of the spiritual journey that brought me to death row, which is about my coming to grips with real Christianity and what...Jun 17, 2010
I dug my saxophone out of the closet and cleaned it, got out my Mel Bay “You Can Play the Saxophone” (very) Beginner book, and tried to toot. I haven’t touched it in a year. Have to start over. I remember how I first thought my instrument would be guitar but my...Jun 13, 2010
San Benito Monastery Dayton, WY At last. No more speaking and traveling for awhile. I’m here for the summer to write my book. Haven’t touched it since last summer, so now I get to descend into writing. It ought to encourage me that I have already written and published...Jul 13, 2009
For weeks I’ve been writing about all the changes that came to the Catholic Church through Vatican Council II in the ’60s – especially for us nuns, who were itching for the church to join the modern world. In just four short years we went from habited, blindly...Jun 25, 2009
Amazing how much you learn about yourself when you go back and trace how you got to be a cogent, confident self. Early on I realized I couldn’t make it as a celibate nun without a close friend. The first great gift of friendship in my life was Sister...Jun 24, 2009
Writing the book these last few days have been slogging days. Trying to bring the reader into the seismic shifts of consciousness brought to Catholics by Vatican Council II, which means I’m into stacks of books, refreshing my mind on content. Then, the challenge...Jun 23, 2009
Annie, the monastery dog, is moping around and is scared to go outside. Dayton, Wyoming has been getting a lot of thunderstorms rolling over the Big Horn Mountain Range right at our back door. It’s the thunder that gets to her, makes her cower inside Sister...Jun 16, 2009
Arrived at San Benito Monastery yesterday for a summer of writing. Feels good to be off the road a while to hunker down and write my new book, River of Fire. In it I give a step by step account of how I evolved from being a nun sealed off from the (wicked) world, only...Sep 6, 2006
Here I am, back in my struggling city of New Orleans after a couple of summer months writing a book on Nicaragua. The working title is Going to Nicaragua. Epigraph: “People don’t give a good damn about Latin America” – Richard M. Nixon. SIxty-five percent of U.S....