ABUNTTONY. That’s a new word whose genesis came as a nagging spark as Val and I walked through a Wegman’s. Wegman’s is a chain of very fine, huge, supermarkets, not unlike many supermarkets [...]

In spite of a deep-seated commitment to “see”, and valuing my photojournalist’s eye, I was mindlessly going through the morning routine of watering our plants. Perhaps it was [...]

even small creatures cast shadows… once-powerful death no longer does… the Cross set it all right… Alleluia, Christ is risen!  

    Uugh, all the beautiful daffodils and tulips are wearing out, losing their vibrant glamour, wrinkling, folding, drooping. How appropriate that, this year, they ran out of steam on Palm [...]

In the many years that I had been experiencing retreats at Holy Cross Monastery, on the Hudson River just north of Poughkeepsie, I had never had the opportunity to see an icebreaker at work [...]