There are many ways to find your way through The Long Way Home. Some readers begin with places. Others begin with books, faith, or family. Wherever you start, I hope these essays invite you to look a little more closely at the ordinary moments that quietly shape who we become.
🏡 Home
The places—and people—that quietly teach us what home really means.
From childhood apartments to church bells, from borrowed houses to places that unexpectedly become our own, these essays explore the lifelong search for belonging.
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📚 Books & Stories
The stories we inherit, the stories we pass on, and the books that quietly shape our lives.
Books are more than entertainment. They become passports to other worlds, introduce us to lifelong teachers, and sometimes find their way into the hands of the next generation.
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👩🏫 Teachers & Learning
The people who taught us far more than they ever realized.
Some stood at the front of a classroom. Others taught simply by the way they lived. These essays celebrate the mentors, librarians, parents, authors, and unexpected teachers who quietly changed my life.
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🌱 Becoming
Growing isn’t something we finish. It’s something we keep practicing.
These essays explore identity, change, and the quiet work of becoming more fully ourselves through every season of life.
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🚪 Beginnings & Endings
Life changes quietly, one threshold at a time.
Moving, leaving, arriving, saying goodbye, beginning again—these essays explore the moments when one chapter closes and another begins.
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🌍 Places & Journeys
Sometimes we travel to discover the world. Sometimes we travel to discover ourselves.
From Chicago to Germany, forests to soccer stadiums, islands to cathedrals, these essays explore the places that continue to leave their fingerprints on my life.
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⛪ Faith & Grace
Faith is rarely a straight road. Grace rarely arrives the way we expect.
These essays reflect on Catholic life, prayer, doubt, forgiveness, liturgy, and the ordinary moments where God quietly meets us.
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🤝 Relationships
The people who walk beside us often become part of who we are.
Marriage, family, friendship, parenting, neighbors, and community—these essays explore the relationships that shape our lives one ordinary day at a time.
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🔎 Wonder & Curiosity
Following rabbit trails can be a perfectly respectable way to live.
History, museums, Star Wars, forests, Anne Boleyn, Pokémon, libraries, Dungeons & Dragons, and the delight of discovering something new—this is where curiosity is welcomed and wandering is encouraged.
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