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. What do you think heaven will be like? Wings and harps and music? Joyous reunions with those we love… and a certain
Author: Melanie
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.
Some Assembly Required
It’s not that I have to be the best at anything. Heck, I was a solid B to B-plus student from grade school on. Post-college (and as recently as three or so years ago), I’ve taken
Philip to Jesus: “Show Us the Father”
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. “Show us the Father, and that will be enough for us,” Philip tells Jesus in today’s lectionary reading from John 14. Jesus goes into an explanation that includes “I am… Continue reading Philip to Jesus: “Show Us the Father”
The Peaceable Pursuit of Gardening
It started small, with some onion sets and a few tomato plants, back in 1987, the year we moved into our first house in a new development 35 miles west of Chicago. By the time we moved back into the city about four years later, the space my ex lovingly