By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The first time I took my family, including a grandchild, to my favorite Northern Utah pumpkin patch, I suspected the youngest among us would enjoy it.…
Posts published in September 2024
What’s happened, three years after my book “Monastery Mornings,” to the Utah Trappist monks and their lovely old abbey?
5 By Michael Patrick O’Brien– In the Fall of 2021, I published a book about growing up at a now-closed Trappist monastery in rural Northern Utah. Telling that wonderful story has…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The only monk who ever came to my house for dinner was the one I never expected to be there. It happened quite serendipitously, just before…