I have some credentials (an M.A. in English Literature, Certification in Spiritual Direction, and an M.F.A.  in Creative Nonfiction), but almost everything I know I learned through stories: family stories, works of literature, the tales of friends and neighbors and saints. I suspect that every little, seemingly ordinary story is a fractal, a miniature replica of the saga of the Real’s pursuit of us and our pursuit of the Real.

I am an Associate of the Episcopal Order of Julian of Norwich, a contemplative Benedictine monastic community. I live and listen and write in a rural mountain valley in Colorado with my husband and our dog