Words help me find my way. I'm a trained spiritual director and author of When Fragments Make a Whole: A Personal Journey Through Healing Stories in the Gospels (Floris Books). Find me at lorywidmerhess.com, sacredreading.substack.com
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Postcards from Switzerland: views from Muenster
Postcards from Switzerland - Lower Engadin
Love cats as well as books? #ReadingtheMeow2026 is a fun event that combines two of our favorite things! potpourri2015.wordpress.com/2026/06/14/s...
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Unexpected Magic: Celebrating the final edition of March Magics with All Good Things
Ring out the old, ring in the new...taking a break to reorganize, and wishing you a happy New Year
Six books, six categories - a mid-year reading recap
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Six years in Switzerland - thoughts on a life transition
Reading the Theatre: Three Performance Memoirs
Gabriel Byrne
Steve Martin
Kate Mulgrew
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I've done this fun meme a few times, and am thankful to Emma of Words and Peace for keeping it going. Here are six books from six categories that I've read so far in 2026. Have you read any of these? Six books for fans of... A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever (...Spinal Tap), Book of Lives (...Margaret Atwood), …
Back in July, we spent about a week in the Goms Valley region of the Alps -- we had planned to do some hiking, but as it ended up being shortly after my gallbladder surgery I couldn't move around much, plus the weather was very wet. So we spent most of our time relaxing in our rented cabin and taking short walks along the swollen rivers between rainstorms.
Dear blog followers, since I've been blogging less lately (but not stopping!) I have decided to migrate Entering the Enchanted Castle to a free Wordpress.com site. The new address is enterenchanted.wordpress.com. I will set up a redirect for the URL enterenchanted.com, but you may need to resubscribe at the new site. Here's hoping everything goes smoothly. See you over there!
People often ask how I like living in Switzerland. I always smile and say I like it, it's beautiful, I appreciate many things. I don't tell them that for me, moving to Switzerland was a lot like dying. English chapel, Davos Though not to be compared to the desperate flights of many forced to leave their homes, in danger of their lives -- I moved by choice, after all, and my other half's origins are here -- I did find it a disorienting, even traumatic experience.
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The Engadin, the valley of the En or Inn river in Eastern Switzerland, is, so far, my favorite region of the country -- I previously shared photos from a trip to the Upper Engadin. In early October this year we planned to visit another part of the valley where we'd not yet been. I was very excited as the time approached, but also apprehensive; I had not reckoned on the fact that fall weather in that region was likely to be cold, stormy, even snowy...
As I did with nonfiction, I'm listing my favorite novels and short story collections read this year. It's quite an interesting selection! Have you read any of these, or would you like to? What were your books of the year? Little by Edward Carey - Finished February 15. I had no idea of the history behind Madame Tussaud’s wax museum in London -- but this fantastical grotesque novel brought Madame T.
When Kristen of We Be Reading announced she'd be hosting March Magics (a celebration of favorite fantasy authors Diana Wynne Jones and Terry Pratchett) for one final time, I wanted to do something special. It was hard to choose what to read, from among both authors' voluminous and wonderful works. All good things, indeed! Somewhat at random I started reading…
Thanks to reminders from Constance of Staircase Wit and Chris of Calmgrove Books, I'm reviving my Reading the Theatre project for another year - and if anyone else would like to join in, please do! Although not as intensely as in some years, I still find myself drawn to reading books related to theatrical themes or performances in a clump around the month of April.
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As I enter my annual blog break over the twelve nights of Christmas, here's a favorite poem - an excerpt from Tennyson's In Memoriam. The first two stanzas are the ones I knew and loved as a child, but as I read the whole passage, I think how applicable it is to our time. Faithless coldness, false pride, party strife...can we really ring them out, and ring in a better future?
Tomorrow’s the 15 of June 2026 which means we officially start #ReadingtheMeow2026, an annual week-long celebration of cats in books. To participate, simply pick a book with cats in it (with …
