by Dorothy Greco | Feb 4, 2021 | Art, Photography, & Beauty, Articles, The Mudroom
If I asked you to describe 2020 in one word, what word would you choose? Pandemic? Chaos? Disappointment? Virtual? Social-distance? All of the above are apt descriptors for this merciless year but at least for me, they don’t quite capture it as succinctly as this one:...
by Dorothy Greco | Oct 26, 2020 | Articles, Photography, The Mudroom
Do you consider yourself to be creative? You should. Poet Luci Shaw explains why: “We who believe we bear God’s image must realize that the image includes the capacity to imagine and create, because God is himself an imaginative Creator.” All day every day, every one...
by Dorothy Greco | Oct 25, 2019 | Articles, The Mudroom
There is a lazy Susan in my head. It spins around and around, presenting me with infinite ideas, concerns, and undone projects. The teachings for the weekend conference. The adult son wrestling with his faith. The maple tree that leans ever closer to the house but...
by Dorothy Greco | Sep 9, 2019 | Articles, The Mudroom
The most damaging and hurtful criticism frequently spoken over me as a child was this simple phrase: “You’re too sensitive!” I was three or four the first time I remember hearing it. The hours I spent playing in our small sandbox were punctuated by frequent requests...
by Dorothy Greco | Jun 25, 2019 | Articles, The Mudroom
Sex matters. Not simply how we have sex, but how and what we think about sex. Figuring all of this out is seldom simple because the extremes views—represented by contemporary hook-up culture and purity movement—dominate the conversation even as they mislead us. The...
by Dorothy Greco | Apr 27, 2019 | Articles, Creativity, The Mudroom
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.” (Genesis 1:1-2) Formless. Empty. Dark. Deep waters. An absence of form,...
