Pandemic Parables: DiscoveriesThis weekend has been a time of discoveries, reminiscing, and mini miracles. Yesterday a school friend of my brother's contacted me. I think I was about fourteen the last time I saw this chap who was year or two older than me. He came to stay with...
Pandemic Parables: Swimming Underwater
March 27, 2020
I have decided to do a series of vignettes of life (in a small hospital) in the time of Corona. (Forgive me Sr. GarcÃa Marquéz!) Stories are swirling all around me and I want to share those that are mine to share. This is the third episode. This post...
Pandemic Parable: Love-Infused Pumpkin Bread
March 23, 2020
There is a wonderful smell of cinnamon permeating my house. It smells like Christmas. That is because I’m baking two loaves of my famous pumpkin bread, that I only usually make around the holidays, to take into the hospital tomorrow. Let me explain. As most of you know I am...
Pandemic Parables: For Such a Time as This
March 21, 2020
I am not sheltering at home. No. I am collecting stories. Incredible stories. Seriously. Until the end of August I am working as a Resident Chaplain at my local hospital (Frederick Health Hospital in Frederick, Maryland.) It is a program where you work, and also take classes. By the...
St Patrick’s Day Amidst the Pandemic
March 17, 2020
It’s St Patrick’s Day. I have enough Irish in me to get an Irish passport - and I’m dismayed that so many celebrations throughout the world will be squelched because of the pandemic. What? No pubs open in Ireland itself on St. Paddy’s day? No parades in Irish...
