A selection of published writings.
Essays
- The Prayer and Preservation of Taking Communion to the Sick (Chapter 16)
- Reflecting on Summer Reading (Tennessee Home & Farm)
- Mother Cabrini on Managing Separation Anxiety (Today’s American Catholic)
- Parents, Ask Your Children – and Yourself – for Forgiveness (America Magazine)
- When Coming of Age Was Horror Time (Today’s American Catholic)
- I Need an Annulment to Get My Second Marriage Blessed by the Church – Even Though I Feel it Already Is (America Magazine)
- Just the Way Were: Remembering a Friend, 30 Years Later (Chapter 16)
- St. Jeter the Kitty Cat, Pray for Us (Chapter 16)
- Where I’m Coming From (Chapter 16)
- Francisco de Goya and Brother Raymond: Brotherhood and Art (Ovunque Siamo)
- Mussolini and Me (Wordpeace)
- Handyman Blues (Chapter 16)
- Honey and a Ham Sandwich (Chapter 16)
- Thank You For Your Song (Chapter 16)
- Is “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” the Most Misunderstood Christmas Song? (America Magazine)
- When Your Mother Becomes Someone You Recognize Less and Less; And Vice Versa (Nashville Scene)
- Sleeping on Couches (Chapter 16)
- Two Wheels and the Truth: What if, Instead of Cyclists, Drivers Saw People on Bikes (Chapter 16)
- In Italy: A Troubled Father and Son Find Other on a Train in the Home Country (Chapter 16)
Book Reviews
- The Kingdom of the Poor: My Journey Home by Charles Strobel (America Magazine)
- A Process of Discernment – Walking with Ignatius by Arturo Sosa, S.J. (Today’s American Catholic)
- On Learning to Pray, and Reflecting on Prayer, with Father James Martin (Today’s American Catholic)
- Against the Current by Kim Trevathan (Chapter 16)
- The Folks Singers and the Burea by Aaron J. Leonard (America Magazine)
- On Vanishing by Lynn Casteel Harper (America Magazine)
Pietro Di Donato
Writings about the Italian American Author
- Pietro Di Donato’s ‘The Penitent’ Tells the Story of Maria Goretti’s Tragic Death from her Perspective – and her Murderer’s (America Magazine)
- A Pandemic in Perspective: The 1918 Flu Pandemic in Pietro Di Donato’s Novel, Three Circles of Light(PDF) (Ambassador Magazine)
- The Surprising True Story of Pietro Di Donato, the Bricklayer Turned Author (America Magazine)
- Economic Inequality in “The Undoing” and the work of Pietro Di Donato (Medium Culture)
- Finding Christ in Concrete (Ovunque Siamo)
Arts & Culture
- Forming Sisters for Service (America Magazine)
- When Love Came to Town: U2 at Sun Studio (Tennessee State Museum, Thousands of Stories)
- Woody Guthrie Sang the Gospel (America Magazine)
- Matthew Ryan: Feels Like Rain (Nashville Arts)
- KAWS: Down Time at the High Museum of Art (Nashville Arts)
- Kurt Wenner: Master Illusionist Comes to Town (Nashville Arts)
- Walt Whitman (American Experience) / Remotely Connected (PBS.org)
- Marvin Gaye (American Experience) / Remotely Connected (PBS.org)
- Spoiler Alert! Tech is Changing the Way We Even Talk About TV / MediaShift (Mediashift.org)