The Writer
It is quiet, attentive work. The kind that requires setting aside your own perspective entirely and entering someone else’s world — their language, their longings, their hard-won convictions. Mary has spent thirty years learning to do exactly that. She did not fully realize it at the time, but all that careful listening was shaping her. The same quality of attention that makes her a gifted writer also shapes her work as a spiritual director.
Whether she is at her desk or across from a directee in prayer, her posture remains the same: lean in, listen carefully, and trust that what stirs beneath the surface is worth bringing into the light.
That capacity to find what is true and say it plainly has served her equally well in the corporate world. As a longtime contributor to the award-winning Independent Banker Magazine and a writer for senior finance executives, she has translated complex ideas into clear, credible, and compelling language — producing articles, white papers, blog posts, and executive communications on diverse topics.
Today, Mary writes from a ten-acre hobby farm in North Carolina, surrounded by miniature horses, Collies, English Angora rabbits, and chickens who reliably interrupt her train of thought. It is, she would say, exactly the right environment for the work — a life full enough to write from, and quiet enough to hear what actually needs to be said.
Work with Mary as a spiritual director