“I cleaned the shit off my pink high-tops and drove home, stopping for an espresso at the coffeehouse across from the college. Men and women were hunched over copies of Jean Paul Sartre and writing in their journals. Most wore… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me -… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
“Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be whole, as… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
“When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent the comforting… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
“I cleaned the shit off my pink high-tops and drove home, stopping for an espresso at the coffeehouse across from the college. Men and… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
Finding voice is a socially responsible political act. We don't just do it for ourselves. And helping someone to find voice demands a spiritual… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other? — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
“I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the God I… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
“On the first day of November last year, sacred to many religious calendars but especially the Celtic, I went for a walk among bare… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
“What to wear on a Minnesota farm? The older farmers I know wear brown polyester jumpsuits, like factory workers. The younger ones wear jeans,… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
If you have a big splash of ecstasy in your life every day you are going to teach students something finer than "buy low/sell… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
“I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
“Whatever you eye falls on - for it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of your life,… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
What if we were to take seriously the possibility that our students have a rich and authoritative inner life and tried to nourish it… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
“One night I begged Robin, a scientist by training, to watch Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' with me on PBS. He lasted about… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
