I did promise to post pictures of my week long silent retreat at the Cistercian (Trappists) Monastery, New Clairvaux, in Northern California. I discovered this remote monastery last year when the New York Times featured an article about their Sacred…
While visiting Santa Fe, New Mexico, for a photography workshop I wondered into a shop called The Monks Corner. It’s a pleasant little shop with handmade soaps and jam. Books written by spiritual masters line the shelves, gilded icons peer…
If you give a photographer a camera, she’s going to take a picture. When she takes the picture she’ll want a story to go with it. When she has time, she’ll probably Google her topic – The Mission San Gabriel. She’ll read…
Deep in the rolling hills of Southern Indiana, where empty corn fields sit and bales of hay are stacked high waiting to fill stables for the winter, lies St. Meinrad Archabbey. Perched on a hill, this Benedictine Monastery might remind…
The story I’m about to tell you is resting deeply in my heart, its a lesson of accepting who you are, acknowledging that God has been trying to tell you something forever and letting go of all the things you…
I’m leaving Molinaseca with a sense of magic on the Camino de Santiago. I suppose it was always there. But I’m just noticing it now. Last night I had dinner with a group of pilgrims, a young German woman that…