Writers and readers will flock together, given the chance. I’ve enjoyed two recent events featuring good books by authors whose work makes my shelves fuller and my horizons broader. “Evangeline” This year’s Catholic Literature Conference in New Hampshire (presented annually by the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in Merrimack, NH) featured a presentation onContinue reading “Good gatherings, good books: “Evangeline” and “Pray With Us””
Author Archives: Ellen Kolb
Writer, activist, Granite State walker.
Celebration as NH gets its first Safe Haven Baby Box
On a drizzly May day, dozens of people gathered in a fire station’s bay in downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, in an atmosphere that defied the grey weather. We came for dedication, blessing, gratitude, and remembrance. The reason was a new installation in the station’s eastern wall: a Safe Haven Baby Box, designed so that an infantContinue reading “Celebration as NH gets its first Safe Haven Baby Box”
“Thérèse: Saint of a Little Way”
My discovery of Frances Parkinson Keyes’s Thérèse: Saint of a Little Way was providential. This warm and affectionate account of the life of Thérèse of Lisieux brought the saint to life for me as no account has done before. This true story is written with a novelist’s sense of drama and an historian’s eye forContinue reading ““Thérèse: Saint of a Little Way””
Ellen Kolb 