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I signed up for a monthly email from the Carmelites after reading the Sensible Shoes series. The brothers send along Lectio Divina for each month. The Sensible Shoes series shared many spiritual practices that I was unfamiliar with — Lectio Divina was among them.  In the books, the author, Sharon Garlough Brown, would highlight different…

Keck and I are season ticket holders to the SMU Tate Lecture Series. Tonight’s lecture featured, Lisa Randall, Harvard professor and author of Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs. (A book not on my reading list.) She’s convinced that there’s such a thing as dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter, she says, makes up about…

The doctor told me if I was really interested in losing weight he required that I write down everything I ate for a week. An entire week. Two years of constant stress had taken a toll on my waistline, my energy level, and even my mental state. The food diary revealed my unquenchable sweet tooth…

My heart landed in my stomach. I looked at my calendar and realized I had booked February and not March. February and March’s days of the week are exactly the same through the 28th. It was so easy to do. Of course, I didn’t catch it in the 24-hour window. When I called the airline…

Ernest Hemingway said in A Moveable Feast, “The only kind of writing is rewriting.” Besides the fact that I loved reading A Moveable Feast right before a trip to Paris, I have grown accustomed to the truth of what Hemingway said. (As an aside, I visited Les Deux Magots, a famous cafe in Saint-Germain-des-Pres area…