A Grain of Sandy

An invitation to a reunion sets Sister Leokadia to reminiscing about the year when she was assigned to shepherd 25 high school seniors at St. Michael’s. She was grateful for the habit that hid her age. If the girls had known she was only four years older than they? It was the mid 1960’s when young women such as ingenuous Molly, dyslexic Hope and reticent Christine were navigating changing times for women and for the Catholic Church.

Steel Matkas

In 1907, Marianna is walking the ships’s deck seeking fresh air when she is assaulted. Matilda is the dolmetscher who translates for the doctors tending to the 1,700 immigrants sailing to America from all over Europe. Following different paths, both become pioneers in the expansion of the steel mill neighbor-hood of South Chicago.

Clarified

Claire’s compassionate heart always reaches out to the suffering and grieving. When the stress of pastoral care overwhelms her, she can relax in the cocoon of her home which she shares with Tom, the love of her life. All is idyllic, until the tentacles of Alzheimer’s, a disease about which she knows little thrust their way into her life through Tom’s sister and begin to wrap around her love.

A little known fact about Terry Robertson:

At age 13, in the space of five months, Terry learned the spelling, pronunciation and meaning of 10,000 words to participate in the first televised Chicago Spelling Bee on public television.