Adapted from a post originally published at leavenfortheloaf.com I came to the Pregnancy Resource Center of the Monadnock Region (PRC) at the invitation of executive director Evelyn Konig. It’s just north of Main Street in Keene, New Hampshire, in a neatly-maintained little office building that looks like it once served as someone’s home. I stepped through theContinue reading “Interview with a pregnancy resource center director: “I didn’t get into this to be silent””
Author Archives: Ellen Kolb
Writer, activist, Granite State walker.
Edith Stein: “Leave it with Him…really rest”
On this feast of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, I once again pick up “Edith Stein: a Biography” by Waltraud Herbstrith (Ignatius Press, 1992). It’s a deep and thoughtful book that required my full attention as I read through it for the first time. Now, I can open the book at random and enjoyContinue reading “Edith Stein: “Leave it with Him…really rest””
Dad and Independence Day
I’m an immigrant’s kid. I didn’t give that much thought as I grew up. My grandparents died long before I could know them, so I heard nothing about my heritage from them. Dad was naturalized, and that was that. I eventually learned that he had earned his naturalization the hard way. He had an undyingContinue reading “Dad and Independence Day”
Ellen Kolb 