Open Book is a monthly blog linkup co-hosted by My Scribbler’s Heart and CatholicMom.com with a roundup of what participating bloggers have been reading lately. My book pile reveals a serious lack of attention to best-seller lists. I take note of them, but they seldom prompt me to chase down a newly-published item. I made an exception for TheContinue reading “Open Book: “The Benedict Option””
Author Archives: Ellen Kolb
Writer, activist, Granite State walker.
Grief and Gratitude on Good Friday
Great griefs are like great joys: they bend time. My sister died twenty years ago. Sometimes it seems so long ago that mercifully, I can barely remember the details. Other times, those details rush back at me so sharply I have to steel myself for impact. Suicide does that. I can smile now at theContinue reading “Grief and Gratitude on Good Friday”
A small step, right direction: less tax money to UNFPA
President Trump’s State Department has told the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to get along without U.S. financial support. There are people who think this is a bad idea. I’m not one of them. Neither is Reggie Littlejohn. I met Reggie very briefly a couple of years ago, when we were speakers at a pro-lifeContinue reading “A small step, right direction: less tax money to UNFPA”
Ellen Kolb 