The older I get, the more opportunities I have to say, “I told you so,” but I’ve never been the kind of person who enjoys an I-told-you-so triumph. On this particular occasion, […]
My Man, a Cockroach, and a Shoe: a Florida Love Story
Eco-Grief
Over 10 years after it was published, I finally figured out how to read Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, the astonishing nonfiction book by botanist and poet […]
Literary Heroes: Eliot Rosewater and Radical Love in “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater”
The world is full of suffering people. Some of us feel it more deeply than others. Empathetic souls recognize the suffering of other people—pain, hunger, poverty, displacement, fear, loss, anger, war—and it […]
Driving Solo
In my pre-teen Xanadu era, my love for music was unfettered and expansive. I sang all the time, any song I wanted, as loud as I wanted, whenever I wanted. Then something changed.
Knives Out: A Love Story With Wicked Edges
It’s scary sometimes how you can be going along in your life thinking you’ve got everything all sewn up, and suddenly you don’t. I hit my sixties and felt I’d finally gotten […]
Following the Green Trail, or Adventures in Cannabis Tourism
On a recent Sunday afternoon, Greg and I took a drive along I-68 toward Cumberland, Maryland. The weather was perfect, high winds blowing puffy clouds across a perfectly blue sky. The state […]
No, Jesus Was not a Zombie, and other Easter Musings
I love these questions. I love knowing that the kids are really thinking about their faith, about how it fits into the real and fictional parts of the world around them
For Women’s History Month: A Short Interview with Sean Connery as Agent 007
Because this is Women’s History Month, the world’s sexiest misogynist, Sean Connery, is interrogated by The Gloria Sirens and can answer only with words he uttered as James Bond. The Gloria Sirens […]
Happy Gwendolyn Soper Day
This is Women’s History Month, which I confused with International Women’s Day, which I missed. But today should be Gwendolyn Soper Day, and as far as I’m concerned, it is. I am […]
Five Years Later, God’s Still Winking
Today, as this fifth-year-anniversary post publishes and I work, every day, to let go of my need for control over everything and follow God’s lead, I see Him sending me everything from millisecond twitches to slow-motion stage winks.
The Gloria Sirens 