LaVonne Neff > LIVELY DUST

Years ago while looking up something in the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 2nd edition , I discovered a saint who sounded strang...

Do you get several unsolicited credit-card applications in the mail every week? Does it bother you that, in the middle of an economic crisis...

In today's New York Times, op-ed writer Tyler Colman suggests that we Drink Outside the Box --by which he means, it's time to join ...

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.--John Updike Now that I am 60, I am going to prove just h...

In the late 50s or early 60, some close friends of my parents got divorced. My parents were shocked. I don’t think we knew any divorced peop...

Apathy-- acedia-- my favorite of the seven deadlies, yet often so hard to identify. Where is the line between culpable laziness and sabbath ...

The death of my friend Lucille this month brought back lots of memories. Not only of her years of illness, hospitalizations, chemotherapy, a...