The religious order to which I have a connection limits my primary reading to two dozen books. The core of my little library consists of:

• Bible, unabridged Revised Standard Version
• The Liturgy of the Hours, unabridged
• Vergil: The Aeneid; by Sarah Ruden
• The Confessions; by Saint Augustine
• Dante’s Divine Comedy; Anthony Esolen
• Twenty One Plays;  William Shakespeare
• Collected Poems & Prose; Robert Frost
• Compendium of the Catholic Catechism

I entered the Catholic Church on Easter 2007 at an age of fifty seven, having come from a charismatic Wesleyan background.

We recently moved to the Sierra foothills. We grew up in  the Virginia section of the Southern Blue Ridge Province in the Appalachian Mountains.