Tag: memoir excerpt

• Food Can Kill … or Cure

  A sudden illness sends a young pilgrim to Boston’s Rising Sun clinic, where he encounters a radical idea: food itself may be the body’s first medicine.

  RMDell’Orfano

  March 6, 2026

  Autobio

  Adelle Davis, alternative medicine history, Ann Wigmore, Boston 1968, Boston Back Bay, counterculture health movement, food as medicine, healing foods, health food movement, Hippocrates, live foods, memoir excerpt, natural healing, nutrition reform, Path Perilous memoir, personal pilgrimage, Rising Sun Christianity, sprouted legumes, vegetarian diet, Wheat grass juice

• Living Deliberately—In Quiet Desperation

  My soul longed to stand tall, even as it remained shackled to the cowardice of my flesh.

  RMDell’Orfano

  January 21, 2026

  Autobio

  1960s America, academic materialism, faith and providence, Harvard, Henry David Thoreau, Jr., Living Deliberately, Martin Luther King, memoir excerpt, MIT, moral courage, Path Perilous, pilgrimage, Primitive diets, quiet desperation, Ralph Waldo Emerson, roots and branches, spiritual search, transcendentalism, Walden Pond

• Breakthrough

  A memoir excerpt recounting a quiet turning point during psychiatric hospitalization, where truth was received without recoil and healing could begin.

  RMDell’Orfano

  December 31, 2025

  Autobio

  Catholic reflection, discernment, healing and recovery, human presence, memoir excerpt, mental health journey, spiritual memoir