EVENTS


The Natchez Council for Arts & Culture
Birthday Celebration for our Blessed Mother
Evangelization 2012
Monmouth Plantation
36 Melrose Avenue
Natchez, MS 39120
I'll be "telling my story" in two talks on Saturday, September 8, times tba.
Contact: Hedy K. Boelte hedykboelte@aol.com
I'll also be in New Orleans through Thurs. the 13th--yeah! Catholicism, jazz, and debauchery...


September 15, Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon and continuing!
L.A. WRITER'S LAB
I'll be teaching the REWRITE MASTER CLASS for the one and only AL WATT
SFS Theater, 5636 Melrose Ave. LA CA 90038
Novel, memoir, screenplay: SIGN UP NOW!


October 23, 2012, Tuesday Keynote speaker at St. Edward the Confessor Serenity Day
23926 Calle Primavera
Dana Point, CA 92629
949.496.1307
8:15 Mass, followed by refreshments
9:15-noon: program
Details, including whether open to public, pending. 
In any case, think about becoming a parishioner at St. Edward's. Rad speakers!


November 12, 2012, Monday
Keynote speaker Mayfield Senior High Alumnae Book Club
500 Bellafontaine St.
Pasadena, CA 91105
Contact: Angela Howell, 626.204.1106


January 19, 2013, Saturday
Speaker, 1:30-2:45 p.m., talk entitled "Store Up Your Treasure in Heaven"
“Faith Odyssey 2013: Live in the Now; Transform the Future”
A full day of speakers etc. at 
725 California Ave. Santa Monica, CA 90403
310.566.1500


February 10, Sunday, 8 p.m.
Interview/ "The Catholic Hour"
WDUN AM 550 and FM 102.9 
North Georgia, especially the Gainesville area

March 2, 2013, Saturday 10:30 a.m.
Lenten speaker, Newman Lecture Series 
Gailliot Center for Newman Studies
211 N. Dithridge Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 
Street parking! 
Refreshments and coffee starting at 10 a.m.
Free and open to the public.
I will be in residence at the Gailliot Center, which is affiliated with Duquesne University, from Feb. 25 through March 3

April 22, 2013, Monday
Keynote speaker

Wellington Catholic School District Spiritual Development Day
River Run Centre
35 Woolwich St., Guelph, Ontario N1H 3V1, Canada
519.763.3000
Contact: Bill Flaherty
519.836.2170, bflaherty@wellingtoncdsb.ca

May 10-12, 2013, Friday through Sunday

Malvern Retreat House
315 South Warren Ave.
Malvern, PA 19355
I'll be leading a weekend retreat for recovering women alcoholics/drug addicts. 
Can't wait to meet the good folks of Pennsylvania!

June 22, 2013, Saturday, 12-3 p.m.
Keynote speaker
ENDOW Luncheon
Omni San Antonio Hotel at the Colonnade9821 Colonnade Blvd., San Antonio TX 78230
For more info, visit EndowGroups.org


September 20-21, 2013, Saturday
Keynote speaker Catholic Women's Conference
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
200 E. Market St.
San Antonio, TX 78205

For more info, visit CWCSanAntonio.com 

October 25, 2013, Friday, 7 p.m.
Keynote speaker: Thérèse of Lisieux: Radical, Missionary, Martyr 
Performing Arts Center,
Xavier College Prep
4710 N. Fifth St. 
Phoenix, AZ 85012
Reception and book signing to follow.
Contact: Anthony DiStefano, adistefano4@cox.net

ALSO CHECK OUT!

My series of monthly Holy Day essays in Magnificat for the year 2012 (and, prospectively, 2013)

My essay “One of Us” in the Winter, 2010 issue of Portland: The University of Portland Magazine.

My essay “A Sacrament of Food” in the Spring, 2011 issue of Notre Dame Magazine.

My essay "Stuck with Fred" in the July, 2011 issue of The Sun.

Podcast, September 7, 2011:Pat Gohn's "Among Women"--St.Thérèse and Me

CatholicTV: "This is the Day" interview re Shirt of Flame and St.
Thérèse(starts around minute 8)


My interview in the Winter, 2011 issue of Dappled Things: A Quarterly of Ideas, Art, and Faith:
“Coming Awake in Love”: A Discussion on the Struggle for Holiness and the Writing of Shirt of Flame: My Year with St.Thérèse of Lisieux

My essay in the August, 2012 issue of The Sun: "Of All the Mothers in the World."