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Much More Than Food
Before I was born, an Italian family table taught me that food was never just nourishment—it was love, gratitude to God, and the first lesson of faith.
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Beneath the Same Cloud
A 1953 schoolboy and a 2026 billionaire build the exact same bomb shelter. One used imagination, the other uses billions—but the radioactive cloud sees no net worth.
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Traumatic Grace:
rue transformation rarely arrives gently. A reflection on suffering, metanoia, and the breaking of the ego through traumatic grace.
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Podcast Episode: Shipyard Scars at Sixteen
Pip: There's a theory that what doesn't kill you builds internal ballast — and RMDell'Orfano has the scar on his left hand to prove it. Mara: This episode follows one through-line: what it costs a society when it stops putting its young people in hard situations, and what history says happens next. Let's start with…
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Shipyard Scars at Sixteen
At sixteen, Richard M. Dell’Orfano worked in an East Boston shipyard where danger, steel, and sweat forged resilience that modern comfort no longer demands of young men.
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The Forgotten Disciplines of Healing
Why have prayer and fasting largely disappeared from modern medicine and religious life? A reflection on biblical fasting, scientific discoveries, a personal 21-day fast, and the forgotten discipline of spiritual and physical renewal.
THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness 