by Dorothy Greco | Feb 15, 2013 | Blog, Marriage & Family, Spirituality
“Love is an earthquake meant to relocate the center of our universe.” So writes Mike Mason in his brilliant book, The Mystery of Marriage. Each time this destabilizing, tectonic shifting pitched me off balance during my first decade of marriage, I assumed I was a...
by Dorothy Greco | Feb 13, 2013 | Blog, Spirituality
Several years ago, I reminded our teenage sons that Lent would be starting in two days. Our youngest protested with a deep sigh and the following comment: “I just don’t get why my giving up ice cream or TV has anything to do with my getting closer to God. I mean did...
by Dorothy Greco | Jan 23, 2013 | Blog, Health & Wellness, Spirituality
Several hours after having my 50th birthday colonoscopy, the hospital called my husband to communicate that they could not wake me up. He replied, “Wake her up? What are you doing? Let the poor woman sleep. She never sleeps.” I’m in good company. According to the...
by Dorothy Greco | Nov 20, 2012 | Blog, Spirituality
I was near tears as I wrote the check for the exterminator. This was our third unexpected, substantial expense in as many months. The amount reflected four weeks of work for me. Hard, physical work. Work that I cannot count on due to my self-employed status. I...
by Dorothy Greco | Oct 30, 2011 | Blog, Health & Wellness, Spirituality
I woke at 5:00 AM to the sound of wood scraping against the clapboard. The three birch trees outside our bedroom had gone from upright to nearly horizontal in the course of the night. It was a brutal storm. Since we’ve not yet had a killing frost, most trees were...
