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…
I know you are probably wondering why I would post pictures of a statue of Bob Hope for Mission Monday. But there is a good reason. Stay with me. This is clearly a giant statue of the “Kissing Sailor,” a photograph…
It was the Monday before Christmas when it hit me, when I finally felt Advent closing in on me. I honestly thought I had missed it. I thought it flew by with all the well intentioned ways I was going…
Last year, as providence would have it, I boarded a plane bound for Mexico City where I would make a private two-day pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. As I slid into my seat the reality of what I was…
