Franciscan Spirituality

Francis of Assisi is my model. He saw the world as a paradise and everything in it as gifts of the Father.

All good work should connect us—bodies and souls, creatures and creation.

Death and sin have been conquered; life and grace reign supreme. We just have to have a major gala of happiness and rejoicing.

Chinese food is one of the many gifts from God on this earth. Cheap, easily accessible, usually sold in enormous quantities, and basically uniform in quality across the country.

To think of Lent only as a time of penance is to do it an injustice.

My grandmother lived a very long, full life. In the 91 years before she died, she raised a family of 10 children—her crown jewel—who then produced her 28 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.