Laura writes two bestselling Substacks. On The Holy Labor she regularly publishes essays on spirituality and shares weekly round-ups of others’ holy labor (books, prayers, art, music, essays, and podcasts). On The Compassion Brigade, she writes half-humorous, half-theological reflections on surviving breast cancer in her early 40s.
Top posts from The Compassion Brigade:
Mastectomy: The Amazon Reviews
Per My Previous Email: A Brief Company-wide Correspondence Between Body Parts
Top posts from The Holy Labor:
“Laura is a lyrical writer who unpacks her journey of motherhood, child loss, marriage, and family life in eloquent captions. She’s written a number of books, a popular blog, and directs a theological project on vocation, but Instagram is where readers can get a peek at her humor and heartfelt personal story.”
—10 Inspiring Catholic women to follow on Instagram, Aleteia
When This Is Over: pandemic poem (March 2020)
The truth about Goodnight Moon (Aug. 2022)
$45K for Catholic Relief Services after cuts to USAID funding
$38K for Second Harvest Heartland
$35K for Catholic Relief Services to support their work in Ukraine
$11K for Saint John Vianney School in Flint, MI
$9K for Feed My Starving Children
$5K for United Way, Flint Water Fund
