All Souls’ Day: the one I don’t have to go to Church for, as opposed to All Saints’ Day. I’ve never quite shaken that childhood view. I take more note of the day than I did as a child; that comes with time and age and enduring the deaths of friends and loved ones. IContinue reading “Numbered Souls”
Author Archives: Ellen Kolb
Writer, activist, Granite State walker.
Discovering Dorothy Day’s “The Long Loneliness”
(Original version published on Goodreads.) I suspect Dorothy Day would have winced at the word “legendary” in the subtitle assigned to her memoir: the autobiography of the legendary Catholic social activist. Humility informs every page of The Long Loneliness. So does clear and inviting prose, a testament to Day’s experience as a journalist. She was aContinue reading “Discovering Dorothy Day’s “The Long Loneliness””
Summer on the trails
It’s time to dig out my blaze orange gear. My favorite hiking season is at hand. I have no complaints about the season just ended, though. It was a beautiful summer in New Hampshire and beyond, including out west for what I expect was a once-in-a-lifetime trip. North Country Four days of car camping inContinue reading “Summer on the trails”
Ellen Kolb 