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His First Communion/Also His Last

By Kelly Fordon

My son Peter is celebrating his First Communion this month.  It’s a monumental day for Roman Catholics because it is the first day we are allowed to receive the body of Christ during communion.  And when Catholics say &l… Read full post »

I fled Washington, D.C. years ago.  Growing up the child of a politician, I always found the glad-handing, backslapping rubber chicken circuit a real drag. Apparently, I was in the minority, because despite increasingly vicious pummeling by the press and opponents, there seems to be no en/… Read full post »

It's hard to remember what I read yesterday!! So here's my attempt to keep track.  

Life-Changing:

Tinkers by Paul Harding--beautiful prose.  Highly recommended by Marilynne Robinson when she came to Grosse Pointe to read last month.  In fact, this was the only book that sh… Read full post »

     What happens when the modern world faces a pandemic?  Despite hundreds of years of technological and medical advances the outcome may be eerily similar to what transpired during the Blac/… Read full post »

 VERONICA By Mary Gaitskill

I’m working my way back through all of the books I missed out on when my kids were too young and needy for sustained concentration.  The best way to do it, I figured, was to stick with the top books of each year.  Luckily the New York… Read full post »

            Last September right after school was back in session I joined a mom-filled minivan caravan headed to… Read full post »