Category: Autobio

• The Sacred Disease

  The rustling leaves in a soft breeze spoke. A cool draft wrapped my arms while heat flushed my face. I heard the rasp of insects in the grass, the sharp peck of a robin tugging a worm. Every sound sharpened until the whole yard was alive.

  RMDell’Orfano

  September 7, 2025

  Autobio

  1950 childhood fear, Enlightenment, epilepsy, Korean War story, McCarthy Era, refuge in music, Rosenberg Trial, sacrd disease, the sacred hush

• The Rock of Ages

  3. Among broken pedestals on Mt. Hood, I sensed for the first time that life’s story stretched far beyond my own—a childhood glimpse of eternity.

  RMDell’Orfano

  August 31, 2025

  Autobio

  Childhood memory, Coming of age, Leap of Faith, Melrose, Mt Hood, MtHood, orgotten ruins, Rock of Ages

• First Holy Communion:

  

  When my dog vanished, I learned how love can disappear without warning; years later, I found a presence that never did.

  RMDell’Orfano

  August 17, 2025

  Autobio

  abandoned dog story, Catholic childhood memories, Catholic memoir, Catholic nuns, childhood grief, childhood loss, faith and loss, fasting before Communion, First Holy Communion, growing up Catholic, innocence in white, spiritual hunger, St. Benedict medal

• Infant Surgery

  A spiritual epic of truly awakening through long-suffering. The Vision Quest reborn—for mystics, truth-seekers, and all who long to intimately know God.

  RMDell’Orfano

  August 3, 2025

  Autobio

  Divine Intervention, Faithhealing, Hydrogen Peroxide, Motherhood, Mysticism, Near Death Experince, Path Perilous, Spirtual epic