One of the first times I spent serious time with Paula Lazor, she talked of helping and defending a good friend. The friend was an elderly woman who had said something untoward after a lifetime of professional excellence and was being treated as a pariah as a result. Paula’s eyes flashed as she told the… Continue reading Friends in Faith: Paula Lazor
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Friends in Faith: Annie Sweeney
I recently got a solicitation from AHC Inc., which builds and preserves affordable housing communities for low- and very-low-income people in my area and elsewhere. The solicitation was to help at-risk kids go to summer camp. It made me smile for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that my friend Annie… Continue reading Friends in Faith: Annie Sweeney
Friends in Faith: MEG Gilroy
Mary Ellen Gilroy was one of the Mother Cabrini girls in northern Manhattan, and she’s got some interesting stories about what it was like to go to school at the very same place where the first U.S. saint was laid to rest. (Far more interesting, I might add, than my whine about wishing I’d gone… Continue reading Friends in Faith: MEG Gilroy
Friends in Faith: Joan Romett
Joan Romett is among the giving-est people I know. She gives in many tangible ways, including supplies and food to the Future with Hope Women events we’re both involved in (and a couple of sweet boxes of Washington Capitals swag she and her husband, Dan, gave my sister and me). But it’s the intangible, deeper… Continue reading Friends in Faith: Joan Romett