While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?

Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.

I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.