“Although I do not consider myself a spiritual person and gave up the church of my parents forty years ago, there is a small handful of ‘religious’ writers I consistently read. At the top of this list is Anne Lamott. She is a Christian writer whose thousands of avid fans include many readers who are …
“Reading any Anne Lamott book is like visiting with an old friend, so I was really excited to read her new one, Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers. This very short book is comforting, amusing, encouraging and in every way very wonderful. Anne Lamott goes over the immediate responses that we have to sorrow, …
“For decades I’ve been following the travails of Anne Lamott, starting in 1993 with her memoir Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year. It’s here that we meet son Sam, and the slightly neurotic and crazed mom, Anne. Since then she’s published in more genres than imaginable: fiction, biography, writing, and faith/religion. And …
