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. Perhaps it was a Scout campout, or a sleep-over at a friend’s house. Or maybe there was a family crisis your parent or parents had to attend to out of… Continue reading We’re Never Home Alone
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.
We Are Family
We were born three months and one week and sixty-five miles apart, my cousin Cindy and I. We married 361 days apart. And yet, we have always been different. Cindy’s father–one of my mother’s younger brothers–and his family moved to the South
The Greatest Banquet of All
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. We’ve heard a lot about food in the Friday Easter season readings so far. We’ve read about the time the risen Christ invited the disciples to breakfast after he had… Continue reading The Greatest Banquet of All
Of Finding Joy in Stability
In my fifty-six years on this planet, I have had thirty addresses in seven states. This nomadism didn’t start with me; my mother’s parents moved all over Wisconsin, and my father saw the world during World War II. They married in his tiny South Dakota hometown, and arrived in Sioux Falls while Mom was pregnant… Continue reading Of Finding Joy in Stability