Notes from Nonna

Amid vitriol and polarization, how can we love one another?

Oct 15, 2019

Some of my dearest family and friends embrace political positions that that fiercely contradict mine, but I still strive to love them. Being yanked between the ferocious ends of our current moral and political tug-of-war seems makes that difficult in the extreme.

Resisting the pity party

by Amy Morris-Young

Sep 16, 2019

When I'm in the middle of what feel like back-to-back catastrophes, I have learned that if I give in to even a bit of self-pity, I can rely on being thumped soundly on the head by God and the universe. And rightly so.

Dear Mary, age 4: I'm sorry that our world is broken and dangerous

by Amy Morris-Young

Aug 6, 2019

Notes from Nonna: As much as you think you want to be all grown up right now, I am happy that you can't read or understand the news. Very scary things are happening in our country right now.

Piazza dell'Anfiteatro, Lucca, Italy (Wikimedia Commons/Davide Papalini)

Far from Italy, living in American isolation, I pine for Lucca

by Amy Morris-Young

Jul 9, 2019

Notes from Nonna: Our lives in the U.S. are predominantly lived out in separate boxes, the smells and sounds and textures of village life only distantly remembered, if at all.

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Amid vitriol and polarization, how can we love one another?

Resisting the pity party

Dear Mary, age 4: I'm sorry that our world is broken and dangerous

Far from Italy, living in American isolation, I pine for Lucca

Fashion notes from my nonna

Instead of rest in peace, run and play

Planning is overrated

The words of the Mass do matter

The life-changing magic of letting your hair go white

Parenting is always one day at a time