by Carole Duff | Sep 30, 2024 | Faith, Nature, Writing and Reading |
As I read about the devastation from Hurricane Helene, I thought about how people of faith have an advantage in dealing with terrible trials such as this. We know we are not alone. We know who to call upon for help. Those who missed the brunt of Helene know that it...
by Carole Duff | Sep 23, 2024 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
What was the matter with me? I knew how to handle contentious situations like this with patience and focus on problem-solving and community-building. But as I read the emails among the officers in our neighborhood association—I serve as secretary-treasurer—my gut...
by Carole Duff | Sep 9, 2024 | Faith, Family, Writing and Reading |
What happens to us in our youth impacts the rest of our lives. Sorting that out later in life sets us on a hero’s journey. *** I found the journals while cleaning closets during spring break. Six 9-by-6-inch books written by my new husband’s daughter, who had taken...
by Carole Duff | Sep 2, 2024 | Faith |
A lesson from personal history today, this essay first published in August 20th’s Women Writers, Women’s Books, link here: http://booksbywomen.org/where-are-you-by-carole-duff/ Housebound on a rainy day, my sisters and I play hide and seek. While one sister covers her...
by Carole Duff | Aug 26, 2024 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
Rough driveway at Vanaprastha 2010 July 1, 2010. While merging into a swirl of traffic on the Baltimore Beltway at Providence Road, my final commute home, I thought about the decision I’d made. I had given up my job, which entailed staying with a colleague during the...
by Carole Duff | Aug 12, 2024 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
This was the scene on Saturday evening when I was a panelist on Zoom in Hippocampus magazine’s Night of Nonfiction and read from Wisdom Builds Her House. “What you need to know,” I said after Hippocampus Magazine and Books founder Donna Talarico introduced me. “In...
