By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Some fifty years ago I was an altar boy serving Mass at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Ogden. I was a reliable assistant, but prone to…
Posts published in January 2024
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– No one reaches the lovely Santa Rita Abbey—the only Trappist monastery in the American Southwest—without taking some kind of a journey. Mine started at another monastery,…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Did you ever hear the phrase “there must be something in the water?” I probably first started to understand this notion fifty years ago, as a…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– One of my most enduring relationships—lasting half a century and counting—is with a 100-year-old poem written by a man I never met. In late 1923, well…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– One day an old law partner of mine—perhaps the quintessential rogue and curmudgeon—looked down at me over his half-moon reading glasses and sneered, “Your problem, Mr.…