Barbara Mahany

Barbara Mahany’s Followers (30)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
Letitia
668 books | 352 friends

Sue
Sue
527 books | 653 friends

Jim Cheng
192 books | 116 friends

Lancelo...
2,287 books | 2,252 friends

Sue
Sue
2,097 books | 63 friends

Laura B...
111 books | 305 friends

Jennife...
66 books | 7 friends

Robert ...
3,527 books | 588 friends

More friends…

Barbara Mahany

Goodreads Author


Born
Covington, KY, The United States
Website

Twitter

Genre

Influences
E.B. White, Mary Oliver, John McPhee, Tasha Tudor, Emily Dickinson, Di ...more

Member Since
April 2012


From the front pages of the Chicago Tribune, to her revered page-two columns, Barbara Mahany has opened her heart and told her stories and the stories of her family’s life that have drawn in thousands of readers for decades. She writes from the well of her Christian-Jewish marriage. Bracingly honest and heart-achingly daring, she explores the sacred mysteries with a voice, recognizable and clear. She is a sought-after speaker, and writing teacher. She lives in Wilmette, Illinois.

She and her husband, Blair Kamin, the Tribune's Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic, have two sons, Will, a senior at Amherst College, and Teddy, an eighth grader. Slowing Time: Seeing the Sacred Outside Your Kitchen Door (Abingdon Press, October 2014) is he
...more

To ask Barbara Mahany questions, please sign up.

Popular Answered Questions

Barbara Mahany Dear Joella, First, thank you so much for asking, and, yes, I would be most interested. I am sending you an email right now.....
Best, Barbara…more
Dear Joella, First, thank you so much for asking, and, yes, I would be most interested. I am sending you an email right now.....
Best, Barbara(less)
Barbara Mahany i practice the art of sitting down in the chair, scanning my imagination, and seeing what moment, what thought, carries some "electrical charge," and …morei practice the art of sitting down in the chair, scanning my imagination, and seeing what moment, what thought, carries some "electrical charge," and that's how i detect a moment worth diving into. but i might just as certainly simply live my life, and when some particular notion stirs me deeply, i know it's a moment that begs for exploring. since i was a journalist for such a long time, many of my writing is "on assignment," and that means i've done hours or days or weeks of reporting, and reading, and when i sit down to write i begin a methodical process of first combing through my notes, connecting dots, making outlines, then and only then do i begin to write. i'm blessed with not many moments of writer's block, and i mostly plow through the wall knowing there will come light on the other side.....(less)
Average rating: 4.07 · 360 ratings · 75 reviews · 8 distinct worksSimilar authors
Slowing Time: Seeing the Sa...

3.78 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Book of Nature: The Ast...

4.24 avg rating — 94 ratings2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Stillness of Winter

4.44 avg rating — 50 ratings3 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Motherprayer: Lessons in Lo...

4.10 avg rating — 40 ratings4 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Book of Nature: The Ast...

4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Blessings of Motherpray...

4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Friendship and Faith, Secon...

by
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
On the Wings of the Humming...

by
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
More books by Barbara Mahany…
Still Writing: Th...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
The Quiet Season:...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
The Impossible Wi...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 

Barbara’s Recent Updates

The Book of Nature by Barbara Mahany
"Small, but rich and full of insights into the mysteries that surround us every day. Mahany does what Mary Oliver admonishes us on how to live: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. This book does just that. The author has paid attention and is" Read more of this review »
The Book of Nature by Barbara Mahany
"Why do publishers make it so doggoned difficult to read wonderful books like this by printing them in tiny, tiny fonts? Is that an 8 pt font? Sure looks like it....

The writing itself is wonderful...very meditative...I am hoping they publish this in p" Read more of this review »
The Book of Nature by Barbara Mahany
"
This was a spectacularly written book, spiritual, yet not trying to focus on anyonel religion. Full of such imagery and Melody, and the extra bibliography is exceptionally helpful."
The Book of Nature by Barbara Mahany
"One of the best books I have read this year. I will recommend this book to everyone!! Beautifully written and poetic throughout. This is a slow savory read. "
More of Barbara's books…
William  James
“I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.”
William James

No comments have been added yet.