How to Have Fun
Mev taught me something very important: She taught me that when you go to Ted Drewes you could mix all different kinds of frozen custard flavors together. I would never have dreamed of some of…
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Thirty Years Ago
Mev, roof of Jesuit Hall, SLU, circa 1987, photo by John Kavanaugh
Thirty Years Ago
Mev, roof of Jesuit Hall, SLU, circa 1987, photo by John Kavanaugh
The Good News of Remembering, 3.18.2017
Yesterday I caught up with Liz Burkemper, home for spring break from her first year at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Liz inspires me with her aspiration to simplify her life and take time…
The Holy Texture of Life (Hold It All)
By chance yesterday I came across the following reflection by Emily Warming from 2007, when she was in a Justice and Peace Senior Seminar with Roger Bergman at Creighton University. I have been blessed and…
Wilder Love by April Ulinski
Started rereading The Book of Mev last night. Partially because I needed her reminder that being academic does not mean being disengaged from the world and from the people behind all those ideas. Also because…
Interrupting My Life
Alex Gaynor worked this past year with the Jesuit Volunteers and is currently a campus minister at Saint Joseph University in Philadelphia. She participated in the Be in Love with Yr Life and Writing Rejuvenation…
Accompaniment/5 (Letter/6)
from Part Three, The Book of Mev Monday 5 February 1996 Dear Angie, And so. Three weeks ago, we buried Mev. So we did. So she is gone. Vanished. Not palpable. Or at least, most of…
From the Archives: Hello from Camden!
Hey Dr. Chmiel! Hope the new school year is treating you well! I thought of you the other day because I was perusing my bookcase (which, by the way, I’m doing JVC in Camden, NJ…