by Dorothy Greco | Mar 25, 2020 | At the Intersection of Faith & Culture, Blog, Current events
Like most of us, I had what felt like an insane week during the first seven days of our COVID-19 shelter in place. I lived through the hype of Y2K and the horror of 9/11. This is unlike both. For one, I’ve never, ever seen churches shut their doors! One of the...
by Dorothy Greco | Feb 14, 2020 | Articles, Marriage & Family, Sex/Intimacy
When was the last time you and your friends engaged in an honest conversation about the purposeof sex? In my experience, such conversations seldom happen. When we do go there, it seems we limit the purpose of sex to procreation and pleasure. And this leaves out two...
by Dorothy Greco | Jan 27, 2020 | Healthy Relationships, Marriage & Family, Newsletter
I’ve been following the news about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (formerly known as Prince Harry and Princess Meghan) not because I’m an Anglophile or because I thrive on celebrity news. (I’d rather read Golf Digest while waiting in the doctor’s office than People...
by Dorothy Greco | Jan 27, 2020 | Aging, Articles, Redbud Writers' Guild, Spirituality
Mid-life throws us some mean curves. We expect certain losses: our parents passing away, our kids moving on, our bodies changing. It’s the ones we least expect that sometimes catapult us into crisis. As we sat listening to the sermon, my husband and I gripped each...
by Dorothy Greco | Dec 23, 2019 | Articles, Perennial Gen
When Zechariah and Mary had their personal encounters with the angel Gabriel, they both ask How. How exactly is my wife going to conceive when she is past her child bearing years? And how can this be when I am a virgin? That same question receives two very...
by Dorothy Greco | Dec 12, 2019 | Articles
Being an encourager has not come naturally to me. I was raised in a family where criticism flowed freely. This left me with a heightened awareness of my flaws and a propensity toward fault-finding. Not long after I got married and started having children, I felt...
by Dorothy Greco | Dec 12, 2019 | Articles, Marriage & Family
Every marriage needs a little help from time to time. Maybe it’s when the kids are little and you lose touch with each other. Maybe it’s when a health crisis hits or a parent suddenly passes away. Or maybe it’s just a pervasive disappointment that you can’t shake....
by Dorothy Greco | Dec 12, 2019 | Articles, Marriage & Family
We were two months into being empty nesters when our youngest son started sending me a flurry of texts. He was attending a college nearby and desperately wanted my car for the weekend. Instead of responding with a simple, I’m sorry but I already have plans, I kept...
