by Dorothy Greco | Dec 12, 2014 | Gifted for Leadership, Leadership, Spirituality
Six years ago we moved from the inner city to a three-acre plot with multiple fruit trees. I never realized how much work these trees require, naively assuming they produced their bountiful harvests year after year, sans intervention. I had much to learn. Fruit...
by Dorothy Greco | Dec 12, 2014 | Blog, Book review, Friday Soul Food, Writing
Since I started following Jesus more than thirty years ago, I have had one mentor. One. This might be because I have a strong personality and other women wrongly assume I don’t need input. It might be because I’ve always been part of churches with a younger...
by Dorothy Greco | Dec 5, 2014 | At the Intersection of Faith & Culture, Blog, Friday Soul Food, Spirituality
Apparently, either my husband and I are non-traditionalists when it comes to Advent or really bad at following through. For the first twenty years of our married life, we had both high hopes and good intentions on December 1st. We’d buy an Advent calendar or put a...
by Dorothy Greco | Nov 26, 2014 | Blog, Book review
Since this week officially kicks off holiday buying season, I thought I’d offer some ideas for the readers on your lists. Please add your own to the comment section. AdventSarah Arthur, Light Upon Light. A different kind of Advent book. Delicious poetry, fiction,...
by Dorothy Greco | Nov 14, 2014 | Blog, Friday Soul Food, Spirituality
I’d like to turn the clock back twenty years. I didn’t anticipate that the fifth decade of my life would include so much loss. Two funerals a month apart for friends who died from cancer. A relative having a diagnostic test this very hour to determine if she...
by Dorothy Greco | Nov 7, 2014 | Blog, Friday Soul Food, Spirituality
Two autumns ago, our world unraveled. My husband’s mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died. Our youngest son took a helmet to the neck in a football game and spent the next four weeks convalescing. I ran over someone’s dog. Our neighbor fell off his...
