Mary Ellen Ashcroft
My blogs
| Occupation | Retreat leader, writer, priest |
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| Location | Colvill, North Shore of Lake Superior, United States |
| Introduction | For much of my life I've been a multi-tasking English professor, writer, Episcopal priest, mother....and now I'm starting a retreat center on the rocky coast near the Canadian border. Lake Superior is always present, as is the sky. My book Dogspell: The Gospel According to Dog has recently been published in a new edition. I'm working on another book--largely memoir. Every day I write, pray, hike with the dogs, and knit. I'm learning new things all the time, like making Mukluks, sanding cabinets, doing compost. |
| Interests | Hiking, paddling,cross country skiing, knitting, writing, reading, bird- watching, sewing, spinning, tiling, rock collecting. |
| Favorite movies | The Visitor, Babette's Feast, O Brother Where art Thou?, Winged Migration, Jean de Florette. |
| Favorite music | Ralph Vaughn Williams and Benjamin Britten are two favorite composers. |
| Favorite books | Favorite authors are Virginia Woolf, George Eliot, E.M. Forster, Sigrid Undset; poetry by Denise Levertov, Mary Oliver, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot; environmental writing by Loren Eiseley, Sigurd Olsen, Wendell Berry. Theology by Rowan Williams, Roberta Bondi, Dorothee Soelle. |
The hair from your last haircut ... what would it say about your new style?
We're not obsessed with our hair in the north woods.