Category: grace

Review: “Traveling Mercies” by Anne LaMott

December 10, 2018

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne LaMott. Pantheon Books. 276 pages. I first met and fell in love with Anne LaMott when a fellow writer recommended her book Bird by Bird as a book on writing. I read it and promptly adopted it as a textbook for one of my writing classes. LaMott … More Review: “Traveling Mercies” by Anne LaMott

A Glimpse of Grace

November 12, 2018

We just got back from Houston last night, where in case you didn’t hear all the hoopla, my two department colleagues and I won an Emmy. Yes, you heard that right. I have to qualify that by saying that it was a regional Emmy, just for the state of Texas. And qualify it even more, … More A Glimpse of Grace