So here we are, halfway through Lent. How did that happen? Ash Wednesday seems like just yesterday. Lent’s a tricky season. While we’re called to search within our selves to consider how we
Category: Memoir
Lent 2013, Day 22: Great Expectations
I had exited my Metro station and was rushing toward dinner with a dear friend when I first noticed him–a man in his thirties, wearing a camouflage outfit and muttering under
Lent 2013, Day 21: Good vs. Perfect
Every year, I eat an entire box of Samoas Girl Scout cookies, the kind with chocolate and caramel and toasted coconut, in one sitting. I don’t know why it’s Samoas as opposed to Thin Mints or Tagalongs that triumph every
Lent 2013, Day 20: Of Smells and Bells
I was a preteen at the end of the Second Vatican Council, which pretty much changed everything about Mass in the United States. I didn’t miss the Latin or the incense. But I