Birdwatchers will instantly recognize this as a bird call. Yes, birdwatchers, you guessed it. This is the call of the chestnut-sided warbler. Ornithologists also identify the call as something like please, please to meetcha. My husband got a close look at the warbler while using our water closet.  He saw the energetic bird hopping from … Read moreI wish to see Miss Beecher…

My latest book is now available on Amazon. The book Martyrs is about the courageous Jesuit priest Father Sebastian Rale who lived among the Wabanaki people of Maine almost three hundred years ago. It is a story of faith, courage and enduring friendship. This is book two in the Brave Hearts series that brings real … Read moreGood News!

Over the past year, one of my sisters -a person with advanced skills in genealogy-discovered that John Adams is our fourth cousin, four times removed. That sounds like a distant relation, but our family and the Adams’ clan trace back to John and Priscilla Alden of Mayflower fame. Ironically, we grew up in Quincy, not … Read moreA visit with cousin John Adams

…is  now in production as an audiobook. I listened to the first 20 minutes and it actually brought tears to my eyes. Benjamin Stanton, the narrator, really makes the characters and the story come alive. Although set in Nazi Germany, it is contemporary as we, too, live in dangerous times when the culture of death … Read morePerilous Days…

God can save the sinner you are…but not the saint you pretend to be.   Anthony Bloom