by Dorothy Greco | Nov 12, 2016 | Blog, Current events, Friendship, Spirituality
The election is over but I’m not necessarily breathing a sigh of relief. In my 39 years of voting, I’ve never experienced a campaign season as ugly and divisive as this one. Words were spoken in anger. Historic wounds were exposed. Biases were moralized....
by Dorothy Greco | Oct 28, 2016 | Art, Photography, & Beauty, Blog, Nature, Photography
When non-New Englanders think of fall colors, they typically only imagine red, orange, and yellow. Those three shades abound, but autumn in New England is awash in pink from the last cosmos and ripe cabbages, blues from borage, greens from kale and squash, and the...
by Dorothy Greco | Sep 30, 2016 | Blog, Book review
I tend to read a book a week. Not only am I a fast reader, but I no longer have small children in the house. Additionally, since Christopher is in his last year of grad school and Matthew (our 3rd son) is in his grueling junior year of high school, it can get pretty...
by Dorothy Greco | Sep 15, 2016 | Blog, Making Marriage Beautiful, Marriage & Family
Approximately three years ago when I started testing the water for a possible marriage book, I frequently heard something along the lines of, “There’s a glut of marriage books out there and not many are successful. Why don’t you work on something else?” This caused...
by Dorothy Greco | Sep 15, 2016 | Articles, Race/Racial Reconciliation, Relevant Magazine
Years ago, my husband and I spent many hours with close friends planning a racial reconciliation conference. My husband and I are white. Our friends are black. Throughout the process, we experienced a few fleeting moments of turbulence but overall, the conversations...