Anne Lindley is a public librarian in Connecticut. She writes about spirituality and creativity at annelindleywrites.blogspot.com. Her favorite writer is C.S. Lewis and she feels most at home among the Society of Friends (Quakers).

Quiet in the Librarian

For my first few years as a librarian, I felt richly rewarded, a shining star of helpfulness. In a nutshell, I get paid to give…

Sitting in the Light of Truth

I don’t think it was my parents’ goal to raise a family of passionless, non-churchgoing Protestants of an indeterminate denomination, but my religious education was…

Learning to Be Good

As a child, I yearned to be good. Not just pleasant-table-manners good, but profound, give-away-all-your-belongings-like-St.-Francis good. This may surprise anyone who knew me back then,…