Mike
Leibig Traveling in DisguiseMike Leibig's essays reveal a large, noisy, mischievous human family.
"Anne told us one night over clandestinely made peanut butter fudge that there was a hidden, easier passage up to the Third Floor. It lay behind a heavy chest or in the back of a small closet. Ellen and Dad came home early that night and we hid the remains of the fudge in a rag closet part-way up the back steps off the kitchen. Later, Paul and I explored and mapped the House but our charts showed only spirits and dragons off the edges behind closets...."
Mountain
SistersAt a time of crisis within the Catholic Church, the Glenmary Sisters journeyed from religious order to community organization. This book reminds us of the power of faith, the hard work of progress, and the importance of bringing the Catholic message to life in a dynamic modern world.
"Helen Lewis, who was then teaching at East Tennessee State University, remembers it as a 'great party': 'I especially remember Anne Leibig. I had only met Anne ... as a Sister, and with the uniform, her veil, and her serious discussion of religion, I thought she was a middle-aged woman at least fifty years old. Here I met a young woman in a miniskirt with fishnet stockings who was sitting on top of the refrigerator, giving one of her speeches which she delivered to young people about "Potentiality" and punctuating her remarks by tossing herbs: oregano, thyme, parsley to the rapt audience in the kitchen.' "
