Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. “Unzip your soul and expose your foibles.” It’s the mantra of my friend Patricia Lorenz, whom you may know from her years of
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Melanie Rigney is the author of Radical Saints: 21 Women for the 21st Century and other Catholic books. She is a contributor to Living Faith and other Catholic blogs. She lives in Arlington, Virginia. Melanie also owns Editor for You, a publishing consultancy that since 2003 has helped hundreds of writers, publishers, and agents.
Living Up–or Down–to Expectations
It was the closest I’d come to beating Dad at chess in the six or so months after he’d taught the game to me (and to himself). “You’re getting better,” he said with a chortle as we put the pieces away. “But so am I. You’ll never beat me.” I was sixteen. It was the last… Continue reading Living Up–or Down–to Expectations
A Movie Star’s “Death,” a Nun’s Life
Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. Dolores Hart was on the fast track to a solid Hollywood career. By the time she was in her early twenties, she’d made ten highly
A Bridge to “Now”
For some people, it’s planes. For others, it’s heights or crowds. For me, it’s bridges (gephyrophobia, if you want to sound learned). The fear started to take hold in a serious way in the late 1990s when I moved to Cincinnati, home to the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, the longest of its kind in… Continue reading A Bridge to “Now”